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Word: thinks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where the skin was thin, and in parts of the superstructure. And they could do six and one-half knots better than the Spee, maybe eight and one-half with all the truck-&-barnacles the German had picked up in the southern seas. The heavy cruiser was something to think about-8-inchers (they could crack most of the Spee's plate, including the control tower, from close range), and the vessel had an edge in speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Pocket into Pocket | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...heroic and unhappy love story of two people who were strong, brutal, brash, realistic, American enough to survive Legend No. i. Like all good legends, these were told without subtlety, subjective shadings, probings or questionings, its characters were instantly recognizable types. Scarlett's "I won't think of it now, I'll think of it tomorrow" was a catch line. Whatever it was not, Gone With the Wind was a first-rate piece of Americana, and Americans in the mass knew what they wanted before the critics had got through telling them they should not want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...picture has to make before it begins to earn any profits at all. Perhaps he was worrying about something else. Night be fore, Producer Selznick made a confession that had the ring of truth. Said he of Gone With the Wind: "At noon I think it's divine, at midnight I think it's lousy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Sometimes I think it's the greatest picture ever made. But if it's only a great picture, I'll still be satisfied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...through the nose. Two years ago, Dr. Edwin William Schultz of Stanford University tried to protect 5,000 Toronto school children against the disease by flushing their noses with antiseptic zinc sulfate solution. The experiment, said Dr. Schultz in the new Bulletin, was a flat failure. But doctors still think nasal sprays a hopeful idea, hope some other chemical may prove more effective than zinc sulfate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio Pamphlet | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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