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Word: remarkable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that Their Majesties' visit might be delayed, engravers had marked the stone as laid on May 19. Blithely, with an ivory-handled gold trowel, the Queen tapped the stone on May 20, declared it laid, chatted with a Scottish stone mason whose accent moved her to remark: "You haven't lost your tongue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Royal Visit | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...ideas on money are summed up in a statement of Schacht, former German economic minister, that "Money that is not issued against needed goods is mere printed paper," and the remark that "gold and silver are not needed goods...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ezra Pound Knocks Economics And American History Staffs | 5/19/1939 | See Source »

...this period-when his farm finally sank under him, Frost took to schoolteaching again - the Frosts thought of moving into even deeper isolation, considered going to Vancouver. At this juncture Mrs. Frost made the only romantic remark her husband ever heard her make: "Let's go to England and live under thatch." Frost sold his farm and the family sailed for England in September 1912. There, in a thatched cottage in Beaconsfield, he began to associate with literary professionals (Lascelles Abercrombie, Rupert Brooke, Wilfrid Gibson, Edward Thomas). In England he published his first book of poems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Muse | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...Leopold Stokowski was quoted in noncommittal remark, but your reporter ignored the fact that in the same speech to the audiences of the Philadelphia Orchestra Mr. Stokowski affirmed that the Orchestra has never been in better musical condition and that credit for this should be given to Mr. Ormandy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...TIME did err in one of these seven points: it was not Harvardman Allen but a member of the orchestra who made the gloomy, ungrammatical remark, "Things aren't like they used t be." For the rest, TIME does not take back what it said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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