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Word: wellses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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A middle-aged man is walking along a street, or standing in talk with a friend, or sitting with a magazine. Suddenly a look of surprise and terror wells into his face. He clutches at his heart, droops, collapses, in a few minutes is dead. "Heart failure," announces the ambulance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Heart Hope | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

Fred Astaire for her, she does all her dances alone, except for one rumba with Cyril Wells. Pleasant, unobtrusive songs by Sam Coslow and Harry Woods include It's Love Again and I've Got to Dance My Way to Heaven. The story, an absurd fable, concerns a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 1, 1936 | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

While browsing through your issue of May ii, 1 ran across the Pulitzer Prize award announcements, learning to my more or less great dismay that the news had not yet seeped into New York, or at least the TIME offices, that Robert Peter Tristram Coffin was no longer a member...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 25, 1936 | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

Still sniffing oil, Dick Norton, on the strength of his gas, made a deal with United Gas Public Service Co., (an Electric Bond & Share unit controlled through Electric Power & Light) for a test drilling of lower sands in the Rodessa region. When the first Rodessa oil gushed into United Gas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Railroad & Rodessa | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

MAN WHO COULD WORK MIRACLES-H. G. Wells-Macmillan ($1.35). Scenario version of an earlier short story, intended as companion piece to the cinema Things to Come (TIME, April 6).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: May 18, 1936 | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

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