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Word: utters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Major Carl F. Greene & Captain Alfred H. Johnson for pioneering the stratosphere in pressurized planes "with utter disregard for personal safety"; on Captains George V. Holloman & Carl J. Crane for automatic instrument landings under like hazard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Daddy's Day | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...Call had reprinted the cartoon from the London Daily Herald, for whom it was drawn by Australian-born William Henry Dyson. Will Dyson had been fired for "utter incompetence" by Lord Northcliffe when George Lansbury took him on the Herald at $25 a week in 1912. In the great days of the Herald his savage satires on British complacency won him fame if not money; his "Sentenced to Life" and "The Vampire" were reprinted far & wide. Opposed to the War, he nevertheless refused to attack England while it lasted. A year of frontline duty and two-wounds deepened his cynicism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Prophecy | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Walt Disney, as might have been expected, immediately offered to buy the exclusive Sonovox rights for cinema cartoons. Perhaps in the future Donald Duck will utter his irate comments in a real quacking duck's voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sonovox | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...Krohler Manufacturing Co., Iowa Painter Grant Wood designed an overstuffed, tasseled, neo-Victorian chaise longue (see cut). Blurbed Painter Wood: "This chair was conceived in comfort and dedicated to the principle of utter relaxation. I hope you like it." With each chair goes a color reproduction of his Woman With Plants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 19, 1939 | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...battle cry that punsters once pinned on U. S. Socialist Norman Thomas: "Cast away your votes and follow me!" Oppositionists are purged in Russia, shot in Germany, castor-oiled in Italy, executed in Spain, while in most of Central Europe their continued existence is dependent upon the utter impossibility of their ever winning an election. Last week two big opposition party congresses -Labor in England (see p. 24) and Socialist in France-demonstrated that even in Europe's democracies, where oppositionists are not considered criminals, enemies of the State, traitors, wreckers, boors or madmen, opposition parties are having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Opposition | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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