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Word: beaker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...items as "How old do you feel? Answer: Yes." "We sent a feature writer all the way to Rowayton, Connecticut, to interview John Tunis '11, and see if he wouldn't say something nice about our Class too. Found old John filing his teeth and oiling his typewriter, a beaker of vitriol handy. Our man put the question. John gave a passionate cry and burst into tears. No material...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plans for Reunion of Class of 1912 Are Already Under Way | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

...animal, his pet duck "Amos" with whom he had spent an hilarious Saturday night. Of Amos, the spokesman for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals reported : "He was probably the drunkest duck I ever saw. He would stand up on the bar and quaff a foaming beaker and then go bouncing . . . into a ground loop, skid off the bar, and tailspin to the floor." Protested Owner Green: "I'm training this little duck for a movie career. He's as smart as they come, but a little bit shy. So I take him along with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 12, 1936 | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...fire broke out at Jefferson Physics laboratory yesterday, when a beaker of wax ignited, but the blaze war soon quenched...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAX STAETS SMALL BLAZE | 12/3/1935 | See Source »

Babbled Genial Jim, orating at a London banquet after tossing off many a beaker: "When the next General Election comes-and that will not be for some years-perhaps three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Mar. 11, 1935 | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

Apparently unharmed, "he described his feelings: "I lifted the beaker to my lips. Immediately I felt a burning dry sensation in my mouth and then I could feel nothing. First my mind became excited and impressed with a feeling of crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bachelor's Cocktail | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

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