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Word: thinks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stinking little coal-tramp, plies between Chinwangtao and Shanghai, British boat, British and Chinese crew, and never leaves China's waters, but out of 27 old and lop-eared magazines in the dining-reading-card-smoking-lounging room, 13 were American of which six were TIMES. Think of it. I know, because we had 48 hours in a typhoon and we had to stay below, so I found and read all they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Such a committee may well find no cause for action, and if so it will remain inactive. Harvard has a tradition of 300 years of academic freedom behind her, and we feel sure that this will not suffer especially in the present period of wars and crises. We simply think that there should be such a committee standing ready to defend this traction against attack from any source whatever

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phi Beta Kappa Issues Call for Committee on Academic Freedom | 12/9/1939 | See Source »

Notice that Jimmy says that arrangements and showmanship plus musicianship are necessary if a band is to have real popular appeal. From hearing the band three different times this week at the Southland. I think that it ranks with Jimmy Dorsey as being the best all around band in the country. And at a great many things, it shades Dorsey. I can remember very few times when I got as big a kick from just the way a band played its music as I did from such things as Lunceford's rendition of the Beethovan Sonata Pathetique. The band puts...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 12/8/1939 | See Source »

Asked whether she still had any difficulty in speaking English, vivacious Simone exclaimed: "Oh, yes! It is terribly hard for me to speak English all the time. When I am on the stage I have trouble because I often accent the wrong words. I think in French, you see, and try to express the same feelings in English, and sometimes I emphasize the wrong thing. I am so glad when I find someone who can talk to me in French...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Simone Simon Has No Time for Love; Star Sees Little of City, Only Theatre | 12/7/1939 | See Source »

...life of an actress is not an easy one at all. Lots of folks think we have no work to do, but I have been kept on the run so much that I haven't even had time to see any of Boston. It's much quieter than New York, though, and I like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Simone Simon Has No Time for Love; Star Sees Little of City, Only Theatre | 12/7/1939 | See Source »

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