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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

...sheet provided with corner pockets which grip the corners of a mattress. > A comb provided with individually detachable teeth which can be replaced if they break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Path of Progress: Jul. 29, 1940 | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...half-dozen ensembles with sour-mash names like Fruit Jar Drinkers, Possum Hunters, Gully Jumpers, Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys. Grand Ol' Opry is no ordinary hillbilly show. It is opportunity night for all the balladeers, jug players, mouth-organists, fiddlers, washboard knucklers, accordionists, comb-hummers, etc. It is a weekly fiesta, Southern style, for hill folk from the Great Smokies, croppers, tourists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Opry Night | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

Each one of the Crimson poll-takers is assigned a certain street in a typical Boston district and is directed to interview as many residents of the street as possible. While some of the interviewers find themselves working in the South End, others comb through the most exclusive sections of Brookline and Chestnut Hill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nine Men Work in Nationwide Poll | 11/10/1939 | See Source »

Said former Press Club President Charles Orville Gridley of the Denver Post: "Not all newspapermen are tousled-haired drunkards. Some of us are bald. Others actually comb their hair occasionally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mr. Smith Riles Washington | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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