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Word: yet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Justice Roberts will set a precedent for the Supreme Court, despite the fact that in 1938 Stanley Reed was a judge in the Ames Competition when he was still Solicitor General of the United States and his nomination to the Supreme Court had not yet been confirmed by the Senate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUSTICE ROBERTS TO DECIDE FINALS OF AMES TOURNEY | 11/23/1939 | See Source »

...when the meeting ended and the crowd began to disperse, they went into action. They created a tumultuous riot, inflicted injuries on nearly fifty people who had attended the meeting, and went home singing the Star-Spangled Banner. The two incidents were widely separated in space and degree; yet both are part of a pattern of hysteria being woven around us. The vigilante attack on a minority speaker is not without precedent in Detroit; Harvard's ban on a minority speaker is a new departure in Cambridge. But the most startling aspect of Harvard's decision is the frailty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 11/23/1939 | See Source »

...commentary on the claim Shaw makes of being a great playwright. While the main elements of the plot will always be good theatre, there is more than an indication that the social satire he weaves into his plays will have to be freely adapted for every succeeding decade. And yet, even if Shakespeare played straight straight may be timeless, Shaw in any form will never cease to be lots...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/22/1939 | See Source »

...doesn't spend his days leaning over a washtub and I don't do the ironing," said Partner Shields, kidded by fellow men-about-town. Nevertheless, Socialites Wood and Shields-one the owner of a California gold mine and the other a Broadway insurance broker-have not yet missed a day at the laundry. Last week Partner Wood entrained for California on his first washtub business trip. At Santa Monica he will open a branch laundry, to be managed by Tennist Frankie Parker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rackets and Washtubs | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...perfect skill, are profoundly Anglican, closer in spirit and allusion to Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll than to any U. S. humor. In some of them Eliot goes kittenish in a big way, recalling that suspect, sissified element in Lear and Carroll which sets U. S. teeth on edge. Yet latent in other of Possum's poems is enough ferocious fancy and parody to knock the spots off most cat books and most child verses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cat Book | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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