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Word: temperedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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There have been three published pictures of Orlando Franklin Weber. One, taken in 1899 when he was a bike racer good enough to be called "The Pride of Milwaukee," showed him crouched over his pedals in a striped jersey. The other two were taken surreptitiously in recent years, after the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTMENTS: Secrets | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

Communists would be dullards indeed if they did not cultivate such a vineyard of the poor. Accordingly, the Alliance has to play a canny game of Truth & Consequences with hostile investigators like Congressman Martin Dies. Fact is that the relatively small Communist fraction in Alliance ranks is larger than in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bread & Progress | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

MAINE BALLADS-Robert P. Tristram Coffin-Macmillan ($2). Poet Coffin thinks that "the materials for ballads are still being made up every day out of the whole cloth of human nature." This good-tempered, able-bodied collection of folksy poems, is made up out of some State-of-Maine-colored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Sep. 19, 1938 | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

Kick. In early 1937, security prices reached 194 on the Dow-Jones industrial averages, climax of a two-year bull market, then collapsed with a world-wide break in commodity prices. By July, prices once more had begun a slow rise, although volume of trading was unbelievably thin. It was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETS: Mr. Chocolate | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

Simon Lake's first submarine was a 14-foot, flat-bottomed contraption, built of yellow pine and looking vaguely like a flatiron mounted on wheels. It had a compressed-air reservoir built of an old soda-fountain tank, and motive power for both its propeller and wheels was supplied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Undersea Anecdotes | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

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