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Word: cat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should care to incorporate, the books of Bowes Inc. would show by September a weekly gross of some $30,000. For the famed Bowes gong now reverberates far beyond his radio audience, in a half-dozen lucrative side lines. There are Major Bowes highball glasses, decorated with pictures of cat & dog amateurs; Major Bowes cotton fabrics, also decorated with amateurs; the Major Bowes alarm clock which rouses sluggards with a gong; the 25? Major Bowes' Amateur Magazine; the weekly Amateur Writers Page in Bernarr MacFadden's Liberty ; a parchesi-like Major Bowes Game; two monthly movie shorts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bowes Inc. | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

...educate myself all over again. My brave little wife essayed to teach me, and she would press my finger down on the typewriter keys, and spell the word 'cat.' I could not mentally visualize what a cat was, though the name was familiar. I began to lose the confusing diplopia. ... As I saw other signs of improvement in my co-ordinate movements, I began to have hope. In about 16 months after the onset, mental confusion had almost disappeared as had dizziness; coordination of the arm and hand are about normal, although my writing is yet a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Interesting Experience | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

...Torontonian with little pig eyes and a disarming smile. Red Ryan's highly publicized criminal career first attracted wide attention in 1921. For armed robbery he was sentenced to seven years in St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary and given 14 lashes on the bare back with the cat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Ticket-of-Leave Man | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

Sarah the Yard cat, whose residence is under Harvard Hall, has been given a collar with her name engraved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW COLLAR FOR SARAH | 6/5/1936 | See Source »

...most significant recommendation made by Mr.Andrews and his committee is the plea for conference groups in more Freshman courses. The experiences of students in Philosophy A and B especially, where a few high-powered cerebral machines run away with the section meetings, leaving the majority of the class cat their dust, make such a change seem increasingly necessary. Even discounting the natural fitness of History 1 for such treatment, the unquestioned success of the conference idea in this course, still augurs will for similar results in other fields...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE YARD STATES ITS CASE | 5/22/1936 | See Source »

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