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Word: usefully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Widener purchasing department has not made a definite decision yet, but said, "we are willing to purchase any worthwhile books that we do not have." They expressed doubts if there were many books that they could use, however. Widener officials favor a cautious policy of removing the books from Austria, over an attempt to purchase the books all at one time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RESCUE OF BOOKS FROM NAZI FLAMES AMERICANS' HOPE | 4/27/1938 | See Source »

...speaking in three languages, 2) popping up in unexpected places all over the face of the world, and 3) flitting back & forth over the last four centuries with the fervor of a flea at a dog show. More upstart than experiment, Pearls of the Crown is a capricious use of cinema's ample elbow room for the somersaulting imagination and talents of 53-year-old French Stagecrafter Sacha Guitry, who wrote its story, directed it and played four of its leading parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 25, 1938 | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

Many a disaster has proved that the only safe gas to use in dirigibles is helium, and the world's helium comes from the U. S. Under an agreement with the U. S. made last year Germany was assured a supply of helium sufficient to operate its North Atlantic airship route, planned to commence service with the new LZ-130 in June. Then Hitler absorbed Austria and out of the welter of triumphant speeches the U. S. gathered that its helium might be used for war, held up the shipment. Last week Germany inquired through U. S. Ambassador Hugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: God-Given | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

What the growers wanted James Morrison to do was stop the chains from using strawberries as loss-leaders to get customers into their stores. First thing he did was to forbid buyers to use the Hammond Auction for anyone but their own chain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Strawberry Kingfish | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...churches but no fire department, has cool summers, bitterly cold winters, sometimes freezes over completely. Last week mild-mannered, blue-eyed Lorentz Stenvig, mayor of Hell, arrived in Manhattan as the guest of publicity-wise Robert ("Believe It or Not") Ripley, gave the press a chance to make free use of naughty expressions. Sample: chided by Host Ripley for bringing Manhattan a heat wave, Mayor Stenvig replied: "Why, it's hotter than Hell in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 25, 1938 | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

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