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Word: likeliest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emblematic umbrella, stickles an uncertain industrialist with the crack: "With your genius for sitting on either side of the fence, you ought to be in the Government." As upsetting to Scotland Yard tradition as he is to the belief that the British are essentially humorless, Actor Richardson seemed the likeliest character yet to carry on for justice in cinema since Bulldog Drummond got into the Grade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...stuff to newspapers as well as to students of mass psychology, the phenomenon of erroneously attributed wildfire tales like last week's is fairly new stuff to radio. Re-examination of WMCA's letters revealed that no correspondent claimed to have heard the broadcast himself. Likeliest solution to the mystery lurked, not on the air waves, but in the files of the Amsterdam News in Harlem, whence thousands of Negroes go daily to gossipy jobs all over the metropolitan area. Not long ago the Amsterdam News reported a similar wraith operating in the neighborhood of Kansas City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: New Live Ghost | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...mainland, into an arc far outside of the Alaska-Hawaii-Samoa defense line (see map). The Navy conceives that its duty is to do its fighting as far from the mainland as possible. It also knows that from Guam it could cooperate handily with the seapower of the likeliest U. S. ally, Great Britain, strongly based on Singapore and Hong Kong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONAL DEFENSE: Windy Guam | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...calling mystery novel, Fast Company, in which the main victim was poetically conked with a bust of Dante. Last summer Melvyn Douglas and Florence Rice played them first for cinema in MGM's fumigated version. In Fast and Loose, Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell show up as the likeliest pretenders to the places of William Powell and Myrna Loy in The Thin Man tradition. For Fast and Loose, Author Kurnitz whipped up a few new fits and starts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 27, 1939 | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...vigorously made known to all his colleagues. He resented humanly the attack on age which Franklin Roosevelt used to justify his attempted Court purge. In a dissent he wrote in 1932-to a decision holding unconstitutional an Oklahoma law for licensing ice manufacturers-Justice Brandeis left one of his likeliest judicial epitaphs: "There must be power in the States and in the nation to remould, through experimentation, our economic practices and institutions to meet changing social and economic needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Rocket & Flowerpots | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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