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Word: worded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...word did the agreement say about the Union's original demand to represent all General Motors workers. Mr. Lewis was obliged fortnight ago to back down from that flat demand. By the terms of the actual agreement he gained virtually nothing that he could not have had when the strike began. But with the agreement went a letter from Mr. Knudsen to Governor Murphy, saying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Peace & Automobiles | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

Thus the world's appetite was whetted for what should be a masterpiece of international word-wangling, combining plausible ideas of the French Popular Front, the Comintern of Moscow, plus Largo Caballero and Rosenberg. Wiseacres agreed that Premier Largo Caballero will most likely reply that he "stands for Democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN-ITALY: Where They Stand | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...family had "put the peep" on. her 16-year-old son Herbie who wished to marry Clarey Johns, 24, that "Charlie was afeered we would do the same on Eunice." But, said she, "This thing is all right with God. I know. A man who has God's word married my daughter. . . . They don't actually live as man and wife. Why, she's still my child, just my little baby. He treats her just like always, except they sleep in the same room now." Said Father Winstead: "What God hath joined together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: What God Hath Joined | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...passage was almost regal. He inspected II Duce's colonial Massaua, dedicated a new.-cathedral at Port Said, unflinchingly visited lepers in Colombo, enjoyed receptions in Bombay and Singapore. But always during the 22 days the Conte Rosso sped eastward the ship's wireless brought disturbing word of the Holy Father's health. Fifteen years ago storms at sea kept Dennis Cardinal' Dougherty from taking part in the conclave which elected Pope Pius XI after the death of Benedict XV. Last month, honored though he was as the first U. S. Prince of the Church ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: On the Luneta | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...Good Earth (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When Pearl Buck's novel The Good Earth appeared in 1931, it was at once acclaimed as the superlative word-picture of China. When Hollywood started to produce The Good Earth in 1933, it set out to make its picture equally superlative. Twenty writers, including Tess Slesinger, Marc Connelly, Talbot Jennings and Claudine West tried their band at adapting the stage version written by Owen and Donald Davis. Director George Hill went to China, returned with a boatload of authentic properties, presently committed suicide. Victor Fleming took the helm, quit with malaria. Sidney Franklin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: The Good Earth | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

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