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Word: visitor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Particularly at a winter sports carnival, ostensibly to glorify the Healthy Body and Soul, is the bottle an unwanted visitor. As Professor Hisaw maintains, "In any display of athletic prowess, the neural pathways must be kept clear from the effects of alcohol." An examination of complete skiing records shows that no skiing championship has ever been won by an intoxicated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO FIREWATER | 2/11/1939 | See Source »

...last few years Isabel Bishop's paintings have mildly haunted many a visitor to big exhibitions. Her style, formed by thorough study at Manhattan's Art Students' League and exceptional resistance to its influence, is noted for: 1) sensitive modeling of form, and 2) a submarine pearliness and density of atmosphere. Critics who like 1) better than 2) were gratified by Office Girls (see cut}, just finished in time for the exhibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bishop's Progress | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...Benld housewife, Mrs. Carl Crum, was working in her yard. Suddenly she was transfixed by a roar and a crash which led her to think that an airplane had fallen nearby. She peered in vain for smoke, wreckage, damage. Mr. McCain came home later to find that a celestial visitor had made a three-point landing on his property, about 50 feet from where Mrs. Crum was standing...

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

...Iowa's Senator Gillette did not do the Wallace boom so much damage as the defeat last month of his Iowa political ally, Governor Kraschel. As a boy, however, at the age when most moppets hope to grow up to be President, Henry Wallace once answered a kindly visitor who asked what his ambition was: "To make the world safe for corn breeders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Hay Down | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...Speaker Bankhead of the House was a Warm Springs visitor. Points for the press: Everything about the reorganization of House committees was sweet and smooth; there would be no such thing as "Must" legislation next session...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Whale on Trout Hook | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

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