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Word: adds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would like to add a word of praise for your miscellany column to that given it by Jack Beater, who claims he wrote and sold a short story suggested by one of the items. I, too, have written a story suggested by that column, but I have had absolutely no success in selling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 29, 1935 | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

This is all very true, but why stop there? Why not add that a two-thirds majority was necessary to pass the proposal, thus Perry's dream of playing in tennis movies and defending the Davis Cup for England went up in smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 22, 1935 | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

...into the pre-fig leaf period and quote the twenty-fifth verse of Chapter two of Genesis: "And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed."--but there was no second "person of the opposite sex" present, so that our first parents need not add a misdemeanor to their already heavy burden of responsibility...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLOTHES AND MORALS | 4/18/1935 | See Source »

...thought that unless the success of these lectures, which quite naturally add to the burden of work placed upon tutors and instructors is proven by a greater show of interest as displayed in the attendance at the lectures, they will be discontinued next year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hindmarsh Talks in Last of Government Lecture Series | 4/16/1935 | See Source »

...gave you an uneven number. Speedometers register only in tenths of a mile; so you forget the numbers after the decimal point and multiply again by 1,010 for the key number. From there on it's a cinch. All you have to do is to add or subtract 101 as many times as you want and put in those totals for entries. It had to come out in one of those units...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 15, 1935 | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

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