Word: nascent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...full-fledged editor at 18, Daniels became, during his twenties, one of the most talented and unpurchasable of Southern journalists, fought for virtually every (safely Democratic) advance in sight in the raw, nascent 80's-from free schools, coeducation, a Railroad Commission, to Prohibition (decades before its time) and "white supremacy...
...never very cooperative with the British in that part of the world, allowed him to continue to direct the Palestine terrorist campaign. Fortnight ago. however, French authorities arrested several of his followers, tightened the guard around his residence, appeared willing finally to cooperate with Britain in putting down any nascent Arab rebellion. This was inconvenient to the Mufti. He soon disappeared. He was reported to have escaped to Bagdad, and rumor had it that he might go from Iraq to friendly Saudi Arabia and there strengthen his forces for new Arab uprisings. But whatever he may decide...
...successful effort to make a man out of the ladies' delight. From a southern plantation where Taylor, as Blake Cantrell, an idly rich orphan, is presiding over a hunt meet, the scene shifts rapidly to the roisterous frontier rivalry of a stage line, run by Wallace Beery, and the nascent Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Forced to sell his plantation, Taylor becomes involved in the general struggle for a livelihood. He sprouts a beard, learns to use a six-shooter to drive nails with, and succeeds in becoming so tough that he can lick Wallace Beery. Florence Rice appears...
...office framed the Hemingway-Max Eastman brawl of last August), old friends Robert Benchley, Waldo Peirce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, few others. Contributor of a monthly page to Esquire up to a couple of years ago, it is said he is soon to become a regular correspondent of the nearly-nascent Esquire-owned magazine Ken (TIME, Sept. 20). A Roman Catholic, he is also very superstitious: he never travels on Friday, touches wood constantly, is upset if a black cat crosses his path. Writing (in longhand), he works regular hours, revises conscientiously...
...Design, has worked on Manhattan's Radio City decorations and is now a sculptor's assistant. Sculptor Amore's winner was Iris Creating the Rainbow. Beside a modernized figure of the goddess, John Amore set a slender striated arc of marble which he described as "the nascent rainbow springing with the speed of light into the arch of the heavens" (see cut). Other winners...