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Word: coatings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...composers. Plump precise Ethnographer Densmore started out as a conventional musician, studied piano and composition at Oberlin Conservatory and Harvard. But when, at Chicago's Columbian Exposition in 1892, she saw Chief Rain-in-the-Face dance with a fringe of human scalps around his coat, she really sat up and took notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Whoop Collector | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Soon he sees her coming down the platform. It is easy to pick her out. No mistaking her for someone's secretary. She looks fresh and eager, with her saucy had and sleek fur coat. He watches her face as it searches the crowd anxiously. The expression is too good to miss. After all, this is a foreign city to her. Then she spies him, and Vag smiles a really happy smile. It has been a long, exam-filled week, but now at long last she stands there in front of him. Smoke swirls around them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 11/5/1938 | See Source »

...minutes after a take-off from Montgomery Airport, the right motor of an Eastern Air liner bearing him and ten other passengers to Atlanta caught fire, shook off. Fire licked along the wing. Bracing himself for the inevitable crash Passenger Connolly took from his coat pocket the rosary his convent-school daughter, Mary Jac, 13, gave him just before he left New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press, Oct. 31, 1938 | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...trouble appears to have started when Bill Jhonson, a "scowling man who had a curled mustache," took a card from his coat. Tom gritted his teeth and "could hardly wait till night to settle with him.'' He riddled Bill Jhonson and all his bandit friends, then studied a map of a gold mine and said, "Guess I better go to sleep." In the morning he tried to clean up Silver City and there was a terrific battle. ''Smoke filled the streets, the shouts of men were drowned in the gun fire, in every store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adventure Story | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...stamp" against Eliot. But the Democrats who turn out to be rubber stamps are unknowns swept into office on a landslide, tyros who possess no knowledge about government, and who naturally therefore think that the best way to stay in office is to cling fast to the President's coat tails, Eliot, however, is widely known for his work in drafting and defending the Social Security Act. If he is elected, it will be for the experience he has acquired, the ability he has demonstrated, and the intelligent independence which such a background makes inevitable. Eliot has not made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELECT ELIOT | 10/21/1938 | See Source »

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