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Word: understanding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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That's what makes it so hard to understand in "The Singing Kid" why she runs away with his lawyer leaving Al to face the T Men from the Internal Revenue Department. But Claire Dodd, who once again is the unfaithful, deceitful woman does just that with Lyle Talbot, who is cast in the unfamiliar role of the unpleasant attorney...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE MET | 4/11/1936 | See Source »

...Again, I understand the average cotton contract throughout the South is under $1,500. But I know, for example, about one cotton contract which paid $168,000 for not planting 7,000 acres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Curiosity on Checks | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

...Again, I understand the average wheat contract in Kansas runs in the neighborhood of $800. But I know, for example, of one such contract . . . which produced 65 checks for a total of $78,638 in two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Curiosity on Checks | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

...rope. I didn't understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Job No. 69 | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

...Ironhead'') Baker, a Negro who had been sentenced to life imprisonment in Texas. At John Lomax' request Governor James V. Allred granted Baker a furlough to tour as a minstrel, visit penitentiaries in Mississippi, Florida, South Carolina, Virginia, sing his songs so that other convicts will understand what Lomax wants for his folk-song files in the Library of Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: After Lead Belly, Ironhead | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

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