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Word: welling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Already released to 5,000 schools throughout the U. S., as well as to a scattering of record shops, Then Came War: 1939 is the first of a planned series, The Sound of History. On the fire: Russia v. Finland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: $6.50 Broadcast | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Jimmy") Bowen is a Massachusetts-born ex-doughboy who has knocked around considerably in his 43 years. Before he landed his present job, representing Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pictures in Montevideo, he used to manage the American Club in Buenos Aires. Visitors from the States knew expansive, bouncy Jimmy well. Last Sunday the whole world got acquainted with Jimmy Bowen's voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jimmy Tells the World | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...world had ever heard. President Roosevelt heard it in his library at Hyde Park. A United Air Lines pilot, flying 11,000 feet over Nebraska, picked it up with his auxiliary receiver, relayed it in bits to his passengers. Jimmy's story reached Timbuctu and Berlin as well, putting the Propaganda Ministry's nose completely out of joint. In Washington, Jimmy's mother heard his voice-for the first time in years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jimmy Tells the World | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Pontotoc, Miss., two-and-a-half-year-old Keith McKnight fell into an empty 54-foot well. When his mother shouted: "Are you down there, Keith?", Keith replied: "Yes, and I'm dirty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oddest | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...periodical, more original in essence if less "experimental" in a literary way than the New Directions annual. Combining autumn 1939 and spring 1940 in a fat third number, the current Twice A Year temporarily assumes annual status. It is edited, designed, published and supported by a calm, brown-eyed, well brought up Philadelphian named Dorothy Norman who takes literature and liberalism both together and equally seriously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Talking & Doing | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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