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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the Chalk Age (60 to 150 million years ago) the air must have swarmed with all kinds of insects-but for some mysterious reason fossil evidence of Chalk Age bugs is rare almost to the point of nonexistence. Smithsonian Institution scientists were therefore delighted to receive last week two rare wing-prints lately found in 100,000,000-year-old Colorado sandstone, one of a giant leaf hopper, the other of something like a modern squash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rare Old Bugs | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...nonstop, with time out only to attend the funeral of the murdered women, for 33 hours. His alibi had obvious gaps. Although neighbors had heard screams the murder night, the dead women's Pekingese had not barked, must have known the strangler. Despite his wispy build and his age (54), the upholsterer had unusually powerful hands. The police questioned him on the sexy photographs and erotic books in his bedroom behind the upholstery shop, puzzled over his composure at the funeral, hounded him about the murders. But the police could not "break" him. Boasted he to Editor Paul Nadanyi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Murder for Easter | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...Pargiter children but Eleanor have left home. One is a full-fledged barrister, one a soldier in India, one of the daughters is leading a questionable life of her own. Age has parted Colonel Pargiter from his cockney mistress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How Time Passes | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...motto is a quotation from Sam Johnson that echoes her own literary practice: "Above all, he is guided by an instinct to create for himself, out of whatever odds and ends he can come by, some kind of a whole-a portrait of a man, a sketch of an age, a theory of the art of writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How Time Passes | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

William A. Schick, Jr. '05, captain of the 1905 track team and holder of many intercollegiate records, died Sunday, April 7, at Brookline, Mass., at the age...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Junior Fellows Selected by Senior Members During Vacation | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

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