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Word: bites (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city offered $175,000,000 for B. M. T. alone, Chairman Dahl was glad to take it, for depression and competition from the Independent have continuously weakened his position. That leaves the city $140,000,000 in City bonds to dangle before I. R. T., which is likely to bite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Transit Trouble | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...bragh days of the Irish Literary Renaissance were as exciting as plum cake -full of such plums as Yeats, A. E., Joyce, J. M. Synge. For some time now the cake has been stale and almost plumless. Last week, however, Irish-hungry readers might bite into two fairly fruity bits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Late Plums | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

International's biggest producer is the Frood Mine near Sudbury, Ont., discovered by Prospector Thomas Frood, who sold his claim for $30,000. Deep beneath tall smelter chimneys and black slag mounds, its shafts bite 3,425 feet into the earth; from its honeycomb of stopes come 12,000 tons of nut-brown ore every working day. A ton of Frood ore contains 95 pounds of copper, 47 pounds of nickel, and the farther the shafts pierce toward the earth's core the richer the ore becomes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: Future Assured | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

Among the English novelists who bite as well as bark, Storm Jameson is a lively terrier. She pounces on an idea, gets a firm grip on it, shakes, worries, chews it to bits. Sometimes she gets her teeth into a marrowy morsel, sometimes merely chews an old hat. For several years she has been chewing a huge bone-The Mirror in Darkness, a pageant of post-War England, three volumes so far, three more to come. Every once in a while she buries the bone (but not her bitterness-the War killed her brother, most of her men friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Magnified Obsession | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

Frightened by a Harvard freshman who was admittedly threatening to "bite her over the telephone" (?), Miss Peggy Arnold, Radcliffe '42, got herself into such a position in a dormitory telephone booth yesterday afternoon, that she required aid from outside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD CO-ED ENMESHES SELF IN TELEPHONE BOOTH | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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