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Word: terme (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week it became obvious that someone had finally had the nerve to tell him of the blunt talk going on in the cloakrooms at the Capitol, of followers who accused him of everything from aspirations for a third term, to a desire to promote Son James for President. He needed no eyeglasses to see for himself how his own majority leader, Senator Joseph T. Robinson (president of the Jefferson Islands Club), was on a rampage over the relief bill (see below). With his three-day propinquity and personality he hoped to close the political gap before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Stags in June | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

Love Story. The U. S. Public, which followed with unanimous interest (and mixed emotions) the two divorces and two remarriages (Anna's and Elliott's) in which the President's children participated during his first term, became aware in April 1934 that Franklin and Ethel du Pont were companions. The discovery was inescapable because the pair was attending a wrestling match in Philadelphia and Franklin, objecting to being photographed at the ringside, made a flying tackle at the Ledger's photographer and smashed his camera. "This man was taking a photograph of me," explained Franklin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 28, 1937 | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

...Canada, estimates that he traveled 42,000 miles by bus, train and trolley, 12,000 miles on foot, made sales talks to 20,000 persons. He found that most universities offer some instruction in evolution, but that many present it as an unsubstantiated theory and many more avoid the term "evolution" entirely. Baylor University in Texas does not teach it at all. Mr. Katterfeld found that the worst metropolitan foci of anti-evolution feeling were Boston, Seattle, Los Angeles. In Boston he was informed that although there were no "official restrictions" on teaching evolution in the Boston high schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Crusader | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

...Aside from those who buy it as a long-term investment or, currently, as a hedge against inflation, main pepper purchasers are the grinders, who maintain "spice mills" all over the U. S. Packers and canners take the balance of the 18,000 tons used annually by the U. S. Not to be confused with black or white pepper is red pepper, cayenne or paprika, which comes from a different plant, has small volume, little speculative value, is not traded on pepper exchanges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Piper nigrum | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

Suitable acting is the term. Also unlike the case in many medical films, the players attempt to play their roles and not steal the show from each other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

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