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Word: burtt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Burtt in the hand is worth two in the Budzianowski," countered the Sage. "With Torbie Hanlon the ball, it'll be a cinch for the Crimson. And that's not sheer Flaherty...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey, | Title: SAGE BLESSES ELEVEN, SAYS "HARLOWED BY THY NAME" | 11/18/1939 | See Source »

...placate Professor Kornhauser. Intruded Psychological Corp.'s Dr. Henry Charles Link, who has worked for Winchester Repeating Arms Co., U. S. Rubber Co., Lord & Taylor and Gimbel Bros.: "We first try to find out what the consumer wants and then give it to him." Concluded Professor Harold Ernest Burtt of Ohio State University: "When two brands of a certain product are equally good, I think we are justified in taking a fee for telling the sponsors of one of the two how to sell his product in larger volume than the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Psychologists in Chicago | 9/18/1933 | See Source »

...calculate all the forces of his drive. To supply demand for such bats numerous Englishmen took to growing plantations of cricket willows, making comfortable fortunes therefrom. But lately growers complained to England's Forest Products Research Laboratories that their bat crops were imperfect. The Laboratories asked Dr. Joseph Burtt Davy to investigate. He found that soil, soil-moisture or climate could have nothing to do with the case, because select and outlaw cricket bat willows grew on the same plantation. He urged further study to follow up his suspicion-that good bat willows and bad bat willows depend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bats & Fairies | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

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