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Word: tooing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Colorado's regents met in Boulder to pick a man for rugged Dr. Norlin's job. Now ill and 68, Dr. Norlin had insisted on retiring. After considering 67 candidates, finding some too rugged, some scornful of the $8,000 salary, the regents elected Dr. Norlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Academic Poverty | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

General College's dean is squarejawed, 46-year-old Malcolm Shaw MacLean, who had been a cowhand, college teacher and night editor of the Minneapolis Tribune before he began to build his new kind of college, which he calls "The University of Tomorrow." Believing that college courses had become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: University of Tomorrow | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

Lacking the gutty foreignness that flavored the Odets play and disguised the too-literal symbolism of its situation, Golden Boy is saved from sinking into a slow-moving dialect melodrama chiefly by the freshness of its new male star. Curly-topped, ingenuous-looking Actor Holden was picked from Paramount'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 18, 1939 | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

General Johnson had declared a truce on verbal bombing for the duration of hostilities: "I am going to be ... careful ... to abstain from too many joyous wisecracks and in my small way hold up the hands of every person in public life who is trying ... to keep us out of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Passion v. Reason | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

On the news-front too it looked as if the Germans, at least for the moment, had outmaneuvered France and Britain. Warned by the failure of their tactics in the last war, this time the Germans were putting all their resources at the disposal of news-writers, while the Allied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: No News | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

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