Search Details

Word: want (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Little girls from the time they are conscious of their own personalities want to be "glamorous." ... As boys identify themselves with daring heroes, girls identify themselves with the rescued heroine. Life as portrayed by Shirley Temple is life as it is known by most little girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 9, 1938 | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...press conference, a reporter asked what the President thought of a proposal by Senator Sherman Minton to make it a felony for a newspaper knowingly to publish a false statement. Jovially Franklin Roosevelt replied that he was trying to pare expenses and didn't want to build any more prisons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Shakedown Cruise | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...Where's Henry?" cackled Gaffer Franke. "I want him to see this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Like a Dream | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...finance would get out of Government and Government would get out of business, everything would go again. . . . Financiers may claim that they want lower wages and lower prices, but actually they are trying to create a system whereby they can manipulate wages down and profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Like a Dream | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...want to be hot at ping-pong, start training on scotch and soda early in life," James M. Jacobson 1B, former national table tennis champion advised ping-pong hopefuls in an interview yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Business Student, Former National Table Tennis King, Trains on Champagne and Stout for Wins | 5/5/1938 | See Source »

Previous | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 130 | 131 | 132 | Next