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Word: recording (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crop condition of winter wheat last week was 59.4% of normal, lowest on record, and a harvest of only 389,000,000 bushels is expected (down 43.3% from this year) and the price of wheat soared from 87!^ Nov. 28, past the haloed $1 mark to hit a high of $1.05, a 26-month high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Dollar Wheat | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...composer, NBC Conductor Rosario Bourdon, made a cantata out of it, with chords of booming brass, a soprano soloist and a male chorus, broadcast it (1932) with Soprano Jessica Dragonette. This year, for the Christmas trade, Jessica Dragonette made Is There a Santa Claus? immortal on a Victor phonograph record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Editorial Cantata | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Already released to 5,000 schools throughout the U. S., as well as to a scattering of record shops, Then Came War: 1939 is the first of a planned series, The Sound of History. On the fire: Russia v. Finland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: $6.50 Broadcast | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Tropic of Cancer was a dizzying personal record of sexual adventure, straycat poverty and street wanderings in Paris, formless and plotless in any classical sense, savagely anti-artistic. Its end-of-the-rope eloquence was, however, apprentice work compared with Tropic of Capricorn, which deals with Miller's jobholding and job-avoiding life in Manhattan and Brooklyn before he went to Paris. Written in a naked language not of literature but of a man's talking, unquotable except by the page, Tropic of Capricorn would mean plenty to countless men-in-the-street. The "dithyrambic prose" which excited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Talking & Doing | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Heel Editor is not quite the complete Southern landscape its author, in his preface, intends; it is a strictly middle-class picture, gets the rest by implication only. But within these limits it is an extraordinary and valuable record; above all, a readable one. With no pretension to literary talent, it contains almost as fine U. S. writing as Twain, Lardner, The Congressional Record. With no "science" at all, it is a document comparable to the two Middletowns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thumbprint of the South | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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