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Word: wooded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...studying languages, and by the racial and religious discriminations against teachers in other lands -which they deplored*-2,500 members of the Modern Language Association met for their 55th convention last week in Manhattan. On hand to comfort them with a puckish ode to "useless knowledge" was Dr. Joseph Wood Krutch, literary critic and English professor at Columbia University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Useless Knowledge | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...Wart also encounters a witch, a giant who apparently represents 20th-century totalitarianism, and Robin Hood, whose real name, according to White, was Robin Wood. (The W slurred off, and recent highbrow scholars, thinking 'ood a Cockney abbreviation, added H.) After all his adventures the Wart still has strength enough to pull the legendary magic sword out of the anvil, win the right to be King Arthur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anachronistic Education | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Last week Lou Ruppel got a new job far removed from the din of replating. On December 28 he becomes publicity director of Columbia Broadcasting System.* His successor at the Times: quiet, serious Newseditor Rowland Wood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Shifts | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...McKesson & Robbins, Inc., whose 1928 expansion was underwritten by Goldman, Sachs and Bond & Goodwin, Dr. Coster transferred a private enterprise of his own, the business of trading in crude drugs from far places-China wood oil, camphor from Japan, Javanese quinine. McKesson & Robbins' crude drug department was very much the private concern of President F. Donald Coster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Drug Mystery | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

Miss Henie began, to collect herself for a dash to her car. "I love skilling too. Irving Berlin is writing the music for my next picture. I'll be back in Holly Wood February 5. I can't say anything about the European situation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "I Love Them All!" Says Sonja Henie of Harvard Men, Turning One Crimson With a Kiss to Prove She Meant It | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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