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Word: throughness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sober, methodical and coolheaded, Violist Primrose is no sissy. His evenings are spent, not at musical tea parties, but at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Once a good boxer himself, still an avid connoisseur of right hooks and straight lefts, he no longer dares to get into the ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Viola and Primrose | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Last week the memory of these Stockbridge bravos brought a sold-out house to Dorothy Maynor's first public recital, at Manhattan's Town Hall. Bronze, cherub-faced Diva Dorothy soon showed that her Stockbridge judges had not been far wrong, but had been a little premature. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Black Diva | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Prospective stock-takers puzzled by any or all of the show's 362 items could resort to a hefty catalogue by Alfred H. Barr Jr., the museum's director, whose running commentary under a great batch of reproductions served as a lecture tour through the galleries.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Protean Pablo | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

The race horse Equipoise (1928-38) was a big daisy on the U. S. turf. In six years of racing he won $338,610 for his owner, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney. In 51 starts he finished first 32 times.* He was descended through a line of thoroughbreds from the great English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Whale Y. Horse | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

* But lost three of these races through disqualifications.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Whale Y. Horse | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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