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Word: adding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long ago its headliner Baritone Harry Lillis ("Bing") Crosby, observed, after a bazooka solo by Bob Burns, that the rendition had been "as dirty as the inside of a Russian horse doctor's valise." In somewhat the same free-style spirit, last week Kraft Announcer Ken Carpenter ad libbed at the end of the program during which Mr. Crosby had played Beautiful Ohio on a saw, that "Cuddle Up a Little Closer is from The Three Twins and Beautiful Ohio from hunger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Beautiful Ohio | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...Attorney C. D. Scruggs to try to buy out Alabama Power's local distributing plant. The company would not sell. Messrs. Couch and Scruggs floated a $130,000 bond issue, broke ground for a municipal plant to distribute TVA power. The company, in turn, announced in a newspaper ad that it had "no plans for discontinuing its service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Competitors' Claims | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

Many thanks for your ad in TIME, May 2 for St. Petersburg's most remarkable rattan chairs, where it takes longer to die in these chairs and on our world-famous green benches than any others on earth. Many who came here to die-within 90 days-40 years ago are still waiting but not hoping. Your pappy, Father Time, is here but you wouldn't know him. Last seen he was chasing a bevy of our beach beauties-and not with a sickle. . . . Time marches on-in St. Petersburg-with a firm, sturdy and steady step...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 16, 1938 | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...Ad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Partisan | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...TIME ad in April 25 issue says: "TIME has been voted the favorite magazine of Harvard, Yale and Princeton undergraduates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 9, 1938 | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

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