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Word: throughness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a smattering of college, Son Robert started a river line that nearly ran his father's out of business. Later Son Robert caught tuberculosis and went to Colorado. When World War I came, Rhea enlisted in the air force. As luck would have it he cracked up and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Prophet in Bed | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Poor little Orphan Connie (Deanna Durbin) is endowed with nothing in this world but a lyrical larynx and a gruff, rich uncle, who has supported her through the hardships of a swank finishing school. She is disappointed when he does not come to her graduation, but climbs bravely into the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 20, 1939 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Durant's erudite wife says their house in Great Neck, L. I., is a "factory." The great popularizer planned to work five years on The Life of Greece, cut it to four-and-a-half to get the book out before election year. First draft was written in what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: New History | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Moment in Peking is by no means such a jumble as suggested by its cast of characters-not only three generations of three prolific families, together with in-laws, but concubines, servants, friends and enemies as well. What makes Author Lin's "little talk" coherent is the central position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Little Talk | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

The main tenet of "Futurism" is that all connotations of an idea or object must be presented with that object in a work of art. Spatial and temporal continuity is entirely neglected by the Futurist. If, for example, he wishes to portray a sick person, he will place in his...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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