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Word: know (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advertisers well know, women buy far more body deodorants than men do. Yet it is equally well known that, while women merely glow, the same occasions put men in a downright sweat. This damp fact has been experimentally confirmed by Dr. James Daniel Hardy and his co-workers at Manhattan's Russell Sage Institute of Pathology. Last week they announced their findings-appropriately enough, at a symposium of temperature held by the American Institute of Physics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Woman and Heat | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Actor Barton then spat right back in Potter's eye: "If you think you're so good and know just how this role of Jeeter should be played, why don't you come up and play it yourself? Try just three minutes of it if you don't want to go to the trouble of learning the entire part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Three-Minute Man | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...Heard last week over many a British loudspeaker: "You people are so safe, you imagine. We know where your ARP stations are, but our bombers could get you before you got there!" The wave length was Hamburg's but Britons had a vile suspicion that the broadcasts came from "somewhere in England," were perhaps a belated Nazi-planted reply to the irrepressible German Freedom Radio (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hostilities | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...small, gentle, spry. Every year since 1934 she has held a religious service on Belle Isle (between Detroit and Windsor, Ont.) at sunrise on Easter Morning. At these services Nancy buries herself in the crowd, her face hidden in the fur collar of her coat. Few of her contributors know her real name, and she knows few of theirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bells for Nancy | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...more difficulty arose when Nancy wrote Detroit's Council for permission to build the tower. Belle Isle is a city park and playground, site of Detroit's Conservatory, scene of its summer Symphony concerts. Council President Edward J. Jefferies Jr. wanted to know who was going to pay a carillonneur's salary in years to come. Nancy explained: her chimes would need no expert, salaried carillonneur. She got her permit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bells for Nancy | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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