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Word: worsteds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best, Brighton Rock, a psychological gangster novel, creates an atmosphere as sinister as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; at its worst it is melodrama with coincidental cracks through which a cat could be thrown with ease. Laid against a background of Brighton Beach, London's Coney Island, the story has for central character a hollow-chested, downy-cheeked 17-year-old called Pinkie, a gangster ascetic who turns killer as a release from slum-made inhibitions: disgust with sex originating with his father and mother, religious neurosis originating with his early ambition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ascetic Killer | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

...night of March 1, a Transcontinental & Western Air Douglas DC2 transport left San Francisco with six passengers and a crew of three, headed for Los Angeles. At the rugged Tehachapi Mountains, it met the vanguard of the worst storm the West Coast has seen for 64 years (TIME, March 14). The storm chased it back past Bakersfield, then past Fresno, then swallowed it up. Last week, a young Fresno prospector, H. O. Collier, saw something that glittered as he clambered up near the top of 9,000-ft. Buena Vista in the Sierra Nevadas. It was the wreckage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Stark Find | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...tackle the worst crop problem since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Government's Week: Jun. 20, 1938 | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...possible solutions to the present problem of House dances, the projected Harvard "prom" is undoubtedly the worst. Such a function, while getting rid of none of the important evils of House dances, would completely destroy the charm of the undergraduate social season, and would cause every self-respecting student to go out of town for the weekend on which it was held...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOHN CAN GET ALONG | 6/15/1938 | See Source »

...case of the homeless three hundred. To them, the most important privilege which the associate membership plan would grant is the use of the House dining balls. Eating about the Square week after week, fruitlessly searching for variety in meals, frequently eating alone--these are perhaps the worst consequences of a refused application. President Conant has frequently referred to the value of education gained at the dinner table; three hundred men are now without this education. Moreover, extra-curricular activity is increasingly becoming centered about the seven Houses, and the closed gates of the House squash courts yearly look more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CASE OF THE HOMELESS 300 | 6/15/1938 | See Source »

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