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Word: things (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long as they swore by the book, producers of Gone With the Wind were free to make as great a picture as they could, and the film has almost every thing the book has in the way of spectacle, drama, practically endless story and the means to make them bigger and better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...shots lighten the cinemagnificence. Technicolor (using a new process) has never been used with more effective restraint than in Gone With the Wind. Exquisite shot: Gerald O'Hara silhouetted beside Scarlett against the eve ning sky at Tara while he propounds to her the meaning of the one thing she has left when everything else is wrecked - the red earth of Tara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

When Artist Hoffman dislikes one of his pictures, he paints another over it. Failures lurk behind most of his canvases. Thus hidden is the painting that first brought him fame-Rubbish, which showed a derelict sitting next to an ashcan. "When I do a bad thing," he says, "I want to be the first one to know about it and the first one to destroy it. I can paint, I know I can paint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mine Painter | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...skinny, tired, nervous, rundown? Try a bottle of sarsaparilla and watch those muscles grow." That is the sort of thing famed Hormone-Maker Russell Earl Marker of Penn State expected to see splashed all over the papers last week. Reason: he had just told chemists about his new, cheap, artificial production of three powerful sex hormones (testosterone, progesterone and desoxy-corticosterone), from sarsaparilla root compounds. A boon to doctors, Professor Marker's synthetic hormones will cost far less than natural sheep and cow products. Professor Marker warned Penn State's publicity department to warn the press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sarsaparilla Caution | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...gone up. . . . She is going down, going down by the stern. . . . Flames are still shooting up into the air. . . . The boys evidently are going to make a good job of it, and leave nothing but the pieces. . . . She is going down still. The bow is under. . . . The only thing showing now is her superstructure, the stack, and part of her control tower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jimmy Tells the World | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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