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Word: townes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gannett (debating with Ickes on the Town Meeting of the Air program): "My answer is emphatically yes. . . . With what courage and valor editors have fought! Their plants have been bombed and burned; they have been punished and shot. ... In Europe men who criticized the government had . . . their tongues slit, ears cut off. . . . There has been no suppression of Mr. Ickes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Suppression of News | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...best pictures of 1938, as selected by Film Daily's annual poll of 536 newspaper, syndicate and magazine critics: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; You Can't Take It with You; Alexander's Ragtime Band; Boys Town; Marie Antoinette; In Old Chicago; The Adventures of Robin Hood; The Citadel; Love Finds Andy Hardy; Hurricane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shorts: Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...automobile; an automobile cushion and floor board. These things were acquired for the Museum, at a price which its officials last week refused to reveal, by Ben Hur Wilson, amateur astronomer of Joliet, Ill. They originally belonged to Edward McCain, resident of the small Illinois mining town of Benld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Three-Point Landing | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...Goodman two clarinets. To articulate Composer Bartók's complicated rhythms both Fiddler Szigeti and Swingster Goodman needed all the gumption they could muster. Because the rhythms were as Hungarian as goulash, perspiring Middle-Westerner Goodman never quite got into the groove. But Hungarian Szigeti went to town, rode his pony so excitedly he broke his E string...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hungarian Rhapsody | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...place of the customary "Sincerely yours," or even "Love" (as the case might be) was something worth calling to your attention. The author of this masterpiece was not a Radcliffe undergrad, as one might think at first, or even a college girl. She is a senior in a-small town high school right here in the Bay State...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

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