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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"I dunno. I suppose old Picklepuss made her stay after again."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/2/1939 | See Source »

Sink-&-Float. If a handful of bird shot mixed with sawdust is thrown into a pail of water, the shot will sink, the sawdust float. Reason: the specific gravity of water is greater than wood's, less than lead's. The flotation method of separating ores from waste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Metallurgical Miracles | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

One of the queerest choices Franklin Roosevelt ever made was to pick William Edward Dodd, a history professor brimming with academic ideals, stiff-necked with homey truths and tactlessness, as U. S. Ambassador to Germany. That Martha Dodd is her father's daughter any reader of Through Embassy Eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Chancery | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

It is practically impossible for anyone who has hit the jackpot of a slot machine to keep from trying it again. The Manhattan publishing firm of Farrar & Rinehart hit the public jackpot hard with the first of the 1,000-page historickal-romantickal novels, Anthony Adverse. After five years of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Long Chance | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

With the Wind), Farrar & Rinehart pulled the lever again last week with another whopper, The Tree of Liberty (985 pages to 1,224 for Anthony Adverse). The book and the law of averages being what they are, no jackpot is likely to shower down. The Tree of Liberty, Elizabeth Page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Long Chance | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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