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Word: ways (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apple falling from a tree may have started Isaac Newton on the way to the Law of Gravitation, but such falls are disastrous to modern orchardists. They want to pick their fruit from the trees, not gather it off the ground. Grounded apples are spoiled by bruises and rotting. Science cannot suspend the Law of Gravitation for beleaguered orchardists, but last week it offered them a substitute in the form of a chemical apple-stem toughener...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Anti-Drop | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...longer than Hitler has had his eye on Poland, and in much the same way, the potent, aggressive stagehands' union (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes) has had its eye on the plushy performers' unions (allied in the Associated Actors & Artistes of America). Between them, white-collar A. A. A. A. and no-collar I. A. T. S. E. are in a position to start such a strike as the U. S. entertainment industry has never experienced, and all summer it has been touch-&-go whether their long-simmering jurisdictional disputes could be settled without war. Last week came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Alphabet Crisis | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Prize pupil of Denyn is Manhattan's Kamiel Lefevere. Daily he climbs the 335 feet to his crow's-nest in the Riverside Tower, dons his gloves and thumps his way through a bingety-bonging symphony. In winter the freezing wind howls a dismal obbligato through the Gothic masonry around his booth. In summer

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bellwhangers | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Then & Now. Last week J. P. Morgan, who in 1914 helped stem war's invasion of the market place, had no part in doing so again. With his 72nd birthday only a week off, he was on the high seas (on his way home from grouse shooting in Scotland), cut off from all communication with the world as the Queen Mary, with radio silenced, sped toward New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: War and Commerce | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...hoping to surprise Father Louis Keenoy, his twin brother. Ordained together, they had promised some day to teach in the same college. For twelve years, while Father Louis taught in Kansas City, Father Francis taught in Denver. Transferred at last, he found his brother with bags packed, on his way to Denver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sep. 11, 1939 | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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