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Word: combe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Labor Speaks TALK UNITED STATES!-Robert Whit-comb-Smith & Haas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Labor Speaks | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

...days later Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau announced a fact-finding inquiry to settle once & for all the question of what was holding up credit expansion. Dr. Jacob Viner of the University of Chicago was picked to head a staff of 50 fiscal experts drawn from Midwestern universities to comb the Chicago Federal Reserve district, considered typical of the whole country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Blame & Bankers | 9/10/1934 | See Source »

...bone. He also made a wolf return a pig it had stolen from an old woman. When Blasius was flung into a dungeon to starve, the woman gratefully brought him her pig. In 316 A. D. they beheaded Blasius after carding the flesh from his bones with an iron comb. Venerated increasingly by Roman Catholics, Blasius became one of the most popular saints in the Middle Ages. Churches and altars were dedicated to him. In 13th Century England it was forbidden to work on his feast day, largely because St. Blasius' aid was held sovereign against throat and lung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Feast of St. Blasius | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

...cars. you are called one of the intermediate worshipers. so I suggest it would be a good Idea if the government or the judges would get together and put a stop to this, my wife is beginning to be a cult fanatic or religious fanatic, . . . they don't comb or straighten there hair or use paint or powder-don't wear no silk stockings, just buy his paper he write and he tell them to get all in the cult, he is going to give all colored people work, if you follow him you will have fine automobiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 15, 1934 | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

...soon jump into the next river as look at another gift shop. Along with a few of our editorial aides, we have taken all of the grief out of this year's Christmas buying with a finely chosen (we were going to say something about a fine-toothed comb, but who ever heard of combing a book?) list of comes from which you may select one for your best professor on your worst class mate. So here goes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas Browsing | 12/16/1933 | See Source »

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