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Word: whereases (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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While by knowledge and actual practice he is well qualified to expound ultra-modern harmony, Professor Piston confines most of his discussion to what he calls "the common practice" of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. "The technical study of the diversified and apparently unrelated idioms of the twentieth century composers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 4/14/1934 | See Source »

Not satisfied with this gossamer explanation, I asked to be shown in black and white just how TIME was inferior to The Literary Digest, a magazine to which the Library can afford to subscribe. The Digest, I argued, merely showed scissors whereas TIME showed a much finer pair of shears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 9, 1934 | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

He built a public market on upper Broadway but it was not a financial success. The Astor policy with real estate had always been to buy, hold for a rise and sell at a profit but put up no improvements. Vincent Astor, during the booming '20s, sold a great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Fun With Friends | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

Rolls-Royce of England, parent of Rolls-Royce of America, Inc., was founded in 1903 by the son of a miller. As a boy, Hon. Charles Stuart Rolls, son of Lord Llangattock, precociously demonstrated his electrical ability by rigging up an apparatus in his mother's bedroom so that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Brewster on Ford | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

You would have us believe that it must have rained Lux during a track meet to christen Harvard's old runner "Soapy" Walters, that it takes a warm moist spring to name a "Bud"' Weiser, a long hot summer to make "Dusty'' Rhodes, the big-league...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 12, 1934 | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

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