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Chips, picking chips off rocky thumbnail, chips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ulysses Lands | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

...marks he does not deserve -are far more interesting than the locker-room orations and kindergarten campus antics with which Hollywood usually pays its respects to football every autumn. The picture fits less into the category of a juvenile sporting print than into the group of quick, journalistically written thumbnail biographies which Warners have made their specialty for the last two years. Smart dialog by Manuel Seff and Niven Busch help make it adult entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 6, 1933 | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

...Congress has given to the President to fight the recovery campaign?" As an aid to teachers in telling their pupils about them it presents "thumbnail sketches" of NRA, AAA, PWA, CCC. FCOT, FERA, TVA, RFC, FFCA, HOLC, with a map of Washington showing their locations. NRA. A code for teachers was submitted to NRA last month by the American Federation of Teachers. It was rejected on the ground that teachers are government employes. Nevertheless Commissioner Zook cautiously announced that the Office of Education is studying the "implications" of a code, with some recommendations to NRA in view. Meanwhile pedagogs were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Schools at the Turn | 9/18/1933 | See Source »

Plainly pleased. Dictator Kemal plied British Ambassador Sir George R. Clerk with champagne, toasted George V, traced with his long thumbnail on a map the places where Turks slaughtered 34,000 soldiers of the King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Monies for Ismet | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

Your issue of April 20 gives a thumbnail sketch of the life of Nick Longworth and credits him with having attended Harvard and "conducting the college orchestra,'' but fails to mention the fact that he graduated from the College of Law, University of Cincinnati...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 11, 1931 | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

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