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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 4, 1938 | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...lands are not flat; East Akron and Akron are hilly; the word Akron is derived from Greek and means "summit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 27, 1938 | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

...75th Congress, which was to have helped balance the Budget, last week went home having written its John Hancock boldly across the page of U. S. history. For to the 75th, as to the 73rd five years ago, Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave his word that an Emergency faced the U. S., and the 75th responded to that magic word as the 73rd never dreamed of doing. In 154 days ending last week, the 75th succeeded in appropriating $12,321,635,000, more than any session of Congress has ever appropriated in time of peace. Breakdown of the appropriations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Jun. 27, 1938 | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

...proper notes in the clubhouse bar. Waiters in white jackets provided "curb service" to the boxes, seats were equipped with gadgets to hold glasses and plates right side up during the excitement of the races. There was even a soda fountain for teetotalers. But the paddock was the last word-a sound proof, roofed amphitheatre where 3,500 spectators chattered between races without disturbing the horses. Hollywood idea men had originally planned to have a revolving paddock, but the plan was abandoned when someone reminded them that the horses might get dizzy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hollywood Track | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...that he's Somebody. Consequently he can think of his physical existence in simple terms, can think of death without thinking of taxes, and can think of doom without thinking about bluffing it: god's terrible face, brighter than a spoon, collects the image of one fatal word; so that my life (which liked the sun and the moon) resembles something that has not occurred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nobody's Poet | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

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