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Word: urbane (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...received a number of administrative rebukes for speeding, for deliberate changes of route without instructions, bearing witness to her unpermissibly frivolous relation to responsible duties in urban transport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Frivolous Alexandra | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...with the Metropolitan Opera's recent production (TIME, Feb. 16), the Brothers Shubert have revived John N. Raphael's and Constance Collier's dramatization of George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier's Peter Ibbetson. As a libretto for Deems Taylor's music. Peter Ibbetson seemed peculiarly apt, and Joseph Urban did some notable settings for it. The Shuberts' play is not so well mounted. The fanciful story of two lovers who, parted as children, meet only in their dreams in later life and are only wholly reunited in death, is one which ; goes better with music nowadays than without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 20, 1931 | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

...retired department store proprietor, Eugene O'Reilly foresees the doom of urban department stores. Future city dwellers will go to the country, he says, to do their shopping, where they will find ample parking space, plenty of fresh air. sunlight. The William L. Ward to whom Mr. O'Reilly's sign referred is the Republican Boss of Westchester County. Mr. O'Reilly says he has no land for sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Westchester | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

Beatification is now the first step toward canonization, but at one time there was no marked difference between the two processes. Sts. Francis of Assisi and Anthony of Padua were canonized within a year or two of their deaths. It was Pope Urban VIII who settled (by decrees of 1625 and 1634) the modern practice of differentiation. The process is threefold: the reputation for sanctity must be established, the heroic quality of the virtues must be shown, the working of miracles must be proven. After beatification, in order to qualify for canonization, miracles must be performed. The procedure, therefore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Beatified Railwayman | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

...title of the study is "Land Areas Used for Various Purposes by Urban Populations: Determination of Percentages of Land Use as an Aid to Scientific Zoning Practice." Bartholomew is the president of the National Conference on City Planning, and past-president of the American City Planning Institute, as well as the resident City Plan Engineer of St. Louis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CITY PLANNING SCHOOL STUDIES URBAN ZONES | 3/21/1931 | See Source »

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