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Word: calle (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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While a New Yorker's "thoity-thoid street" grates on certain sensitive ears, so does a Southerner's "Ah" for "I." So, let's call the whole thing off. . . . Let the New Englander retain his nasal twang; it adds flavor and color. Let us not have a Civil War about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...September day, Watchman John. Drexel, whose duties included guarding the closed Chicago stonecutting plant of St. Louis' big Steven & Son, made an excited long distance call to his employers. "The plant has been stolen," gasped Watchman Drexel. "It's gone." Chicago police, after a look at the dismantled plant, immediately recalled that, two weeks before, the stonecutting firm of T. C. Diener Co. had also reported that their closed plant, consisting of four buildings full of machinery, had been completely razed. Investigation disclosed that both jobs had been done by a crew of Negro workmen. A trail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Wrecker | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...Ramblers had amassed in the other game. The lineups: LOWELL (4) ELIOT (2) Pinansky, c. c., Wells Rogers, p. p., Tillman Deering, 1b. 1b., Madey Scott, 2b. 2b., Peterfreund Brown, s.s. s.s., Demeter Durant, 3b. 3b., Reed Shirk, s.l. s.l., Stern Kelley, l.f. l.f., Rogers Johnson, c.f. c.f., Lee Call, r.f. r.f., Uihlein Substitutions: LOWELL: White, Viets, Dale; ELIOT: Gill, Kaplan. DUDLTY (13) DUNSTER (9) Thune, 2b. c., Lipsitt Simon, s.l. p., Kinnicut Ulin, s.s. 1b., Philbrick Soltz, 1b. 2b., McDonald Rosenberg, 3b. 3b., Merrill Fisher, c.f. s.s., Noyes Starr, p. s.l., Doughty Maish, r.f. r.f., Woodward Morgan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 12/3/1937 | See Source »

Vernon Struck, ace spinner back, got second call from sports editors of the UP and Associated Press as well as honorable mention in the INS poll and a place on the NEA Service's All East second team. A place on the NEA team also went to Kevorkian, while Nee made the UP second team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harlowmen Honored in Selection to All-New England, All-East Positions | 12/1/1937 | See Source »

...Knox had different ideas. Says she: "I just used common sense-a man would call it horse sense-in running my business. But from the first I was determined to run it in what I called a woman's way, because . . . after all, it was women who purchased gelatine." Mrs. Knox spent $500,000 on research, built an experimental kitchen and flooded the nation with gelatine recipes. She ordered the factory kept clean as a kitchen, beautified the grounds, abolished the rear door for employes because "we are all ladies and gentlemen here together." As one result Knox gelatine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Happiness Headquarters | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

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