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Word: lightest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Absent-minded, absorbed in work, Coach Zuppke believes strong hands, taught rhythm on the have the lightest touch on the canvas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: He Mixes Art Football | 11/16/1937 | See Source »

Centre of last week's quake was located three miles from Manila's downtown district. Seismologists rated the force of the first tremor between five and six on the scale which measures the lightest shocks as one, heaviest on record as ten. In Cambridge, Mass, last week. Dr. Lewis Don Leet of Harvard first learned of the quake by telegraph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Shock at Manila | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...Object Sublime." British business, with over $1,000,000,000 invested in Chinese property, and British sentimentalists for once united in their backing of the underdog in a modern war last week. Lightest touch was delivered by Cartoonist Orr in the Glasgow Daily Record. Referring to numerous statements in the Japanese press that the time had come for China to be "punished," he drew a scene from Gilbert & Sullivan's Mikado showing a wretched Chinese coolie, head on block before the Lord High Executioner, while beside him the spectacled Mikado, finger a-wag sings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Sailors Ashore | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

...Peace River district on the Arctic's frontier. Through vast areas of Canada's Prairie Provinces the harvest's conglomerate followers will pass swiftly, for those flat lands have been seared by drought, wasted by rust until the Dominion has resigned itself to the lightest wheat crop in modern years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bread for Sale | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

...Gershwin's own deft language, "I'm seeking phrases to sing his praises." But, better -let him speak for himself to show your reviewer Mr. Gershwin has not only the lightest touch in the business but also the most penetrating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 10, 1937 | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

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