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Word: cornell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...HAVEN-David Cornel Dejong- Houghton Mifflin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Below Sea Level | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

BELLY FULLA STRAW-David Cornel Dejong-Knopf ($2.50). Earnest, heavy tale of the Americanization of a Dutch family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books of the Fortnight | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

Intermittently from 1915 to 1920 a robot called Mike, then Fritz von Blitz the Kaiser's Hoodoo, then Percy the Mechanical Man, performed prodigies of senseless versatility in the U. S. funny-papers (New York Herald et al). Cartoonist Harry Cornel Greening equipped his creature with a row of buttons down the back which, when pushed, set Percy to his tasks. Only trouble-and chief source of comedy-was that, being brainless as well as tireless, Percy would keep on doing whatever he started until someone pushed another of his buttons. Thus, stoking a warship, when he had stoked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Down-in-Four | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

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