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Word: caped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shack: the four furnished walls and floor of Artist Maclver's home-made cottage on Cape Cod, splayed out flat against a violet void and viewed from above as the driftwood rafts they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ideas & Illuminations | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

History. Josef Berger, of Provincetown, Mass, and the Federal Writers' Project, author of Cape Cod Pilot-to collect in a book the tall tales of Portuguese fishermen in Gloucester and other New England ports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: $135,000 to 58 | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...first international underwater telegraph cable was laid in 1850 across 25 miles of English Channel from Dover to Cape Gris Nez, France. The first transatlantic cable was opened by Queen Victoria and President Buchanan in 1858. Since then, in all parts of the world, some 3,500 cables, totaling 300,000 miles in length, have been put in operation. They lie flat and tensionless on the floor of the ocean, avoid undersea peaks and canyons, go no deeper than about three miles, cost around $2,000 a mile. Inside each cable a copper conducting wire, 1 in. thick, is protected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Submarine Plow | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...cape, short, black, no sleeves, turn-up collar, taken from the Gym after Saturday night dance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overset | 3/29/1938 | See Source »

...accident than horrified at her mother's long-range powers. Later she joined the Provincetown Players, hit Broadway's fringe in The Earth Between, had an engagement (complicated by belated measles) with Blanche Yurka's troupe in The Wild Duck, a summer at the Cape Playhouse, and Broadway successes in Broken Dishes with Donald Meek, The Solid South with Richard Bennett. Two screen tests resulted, and in December 1930, Bette, Ruthie and their terrier dog went to Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Popeye the Magnificent | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

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