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Word: tightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still plugging their once-sensational theory that economics makes history what it is, the Beards explore the underground economic forces that brought about Coolidge prosperity. With the aloof amusement of two moralists who stayed sober while the rest of the world got tight, they investigate the causes of the crash, the closing of the banks, the New Deal and government by Brain Trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Boom to Gloom | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...another place he asks "Are the categories hitherto used in, let us say, University teaching, in our times, and our fathers', really serviceable? Does any really good mind ever get a kick out of studying stuff that has been put into water-tight compartments and hermetically sealed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ezra Pound, Well Known Author, to Read Poems Here | 5/16/1939 | See Source »

First of all, none of the words used in the song . . . were intended to have any particular meaning. Last October, Jerry Brandow and Larry Kent, two comedian-dancers, played a "lick" for me to which the words "Hold-tight, hold-tight, hold-tight, hold-tight -want some seafood mama ! Shrimpers and rice, they're very nice" went. The two boys explained that they had heard the words and music either in a New York or Philadelphia night club where a colored band was playing. . . . We made a recording of the words and music to that point in a Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...result of the ban on the song, new lyrics were written, with the new writers now being cut in on the royalties. With the song a hit-and because so many people were connected with its composition -the various people are billed "writer of Hold-Tight" in the numerous places they work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Lampy Has Tight Infield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: o o o o O O! "We'll Take The 'Poons"--Crimson | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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