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Word: throughness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week in the little French village of La Napoule in the Alpes Maritimes, townspeople and fishermen streamed across the Place Henry Clews, through the great gate of the Chateau de la Napoule, to the carved and vaulted mausoleum within. They went to pay their respects to their benefactor, buried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Never-Never Land | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Henry Clews was a poor little rich boy turned artist. Born and bred in a big Manhattan house, son of an English-born international banker, Henry went through the regular paces of an idle and talented young man. He tried his hand at Wall Street and at playwriting, married, divorced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Never-Never Land | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Charles Wheeler Ervin, 73-year-old public relations adviser to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, looks back with nostalgia on the years when he was editor of the Socialist New York Call, from 1916 until 1922. He likes to thumb through old files of the Call, reread Eugene Debs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Prophecy | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Believing that 50% of young people are intellectually unprepared for marriage, 20% financially unready, Father Roy put his Jocist candidates through exhaustive preparation, weeded them from 400 to 105 couples. The chosen ones he sent to lectures, both in mixed and segregated groups, on the medical, economic, social and ethical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Jocists to Altar | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

> Fired 150 Fair police and 205 college-boy information cadets. (Irked by their dismissal, one cadet platoon waded through the two mirror pools from the Four Freedoms statues to the George Washington statue, indulged in horseplay.)

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Customers Wanted | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

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