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Word: marathons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tabloid Julius Caesar is a hit; so is a marathon Hamlet. A romantic play-Romeo and Juliet-starring Katharine Cornell, does well enough; a largely rhetorical one-King Richard II-starring a then not well-known Maurice Evans, does far better. Hamlet, with John Gielgud, then no name on Broadway, goes over big; with Leslie Howard, a big Broadway name, flops. Tallulah Bankhead cannot last a week in Antony and Cleopatra, Walter Huston cannot last a month in Othello. The simplest answer is almost certainly right: Shakespeare is as popular as his performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Bard and the Box Office | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Although Jaakko's undefeated squad will be facing major opposition from Princeton, Yale, Pennsylvania, Columbia, Dartmouth and Cornell in the new Ivy League mass marathon, the Crim- son has already decisively beaten the Elis, Tigers, and Indians. And Princeton in turn has taken the measure of Columbia and Penn...

Author: By Spencer Klaw, | Title: HARRIERS GIVEN EDGE IN HEPTAGONAL MEET | 11/11/1939 | See Source »

...autobiographical first novel of a Russian ex-revolutionist and army officer who escaped to the U. S. in 1924, They That Take the Sword is a simply-told, convincing, first-person marathon (717 pages). It traces the career of an idealistic, dynamic, personable young Siberian peasant who ran away at 16 to become a "Russian Lincoln." He became leader of a terrorist group, was exiled to Siberia, rose to a captaincy during the War, commanded both Red and White troops in the civil war, narrowly escaped "liquidation" when he grew disgusted with both sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Russians As They Were | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Marathon is now producing the new lignin plastic at the rate of 25 tons a day, has raw materials on hand for a top production of 400 tons daily. Last year the company's net sales were $11,109,000. Last week its officials announced a $1,500,000 expansion program. But Chemist Howard was still scouting ahead. His goal: to establish his new chemical talk-of-the-town as the most important addition to the world's store of raw materials since coal tar and cellulose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Ex-Nuisance | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...Mills that manufacture brown paper obtain a black liquor from which chemicals can be recovered. Mills (like Marathon) that manufacture fine paper discard sulphite liquor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Ex-Nuisance | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

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