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Word: cubes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scan a "Square and Cube of Hebrew Mores...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/1/1938 | See Source »

...dead-pan Grahamite assistants. Favored by streamlined technique and by an early position on an anti-climactic program, mask-faced Graham's parsimonious convolutions drew bravos. So did the following Theatre Piece, in which Pantomimist Charles Weidman skittered in black tights while Doris Humphrey caressed a purple cube before a background of dismembered limbs and torsos. For a moment things looked better for the tired businessman when symbol-minded, mop-headed Tamiris shook substantial thighs beneath a raspberry-sundae skirt. But this performance was actually a satire on the evils of decadent capitalism. Hanya Holm, disciple of Mary Wigman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Modern Dancers | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...next, 2.5 the third as the slaves became exhausted. A ship painted white is 12° cooler than one painted black. World's greatest seaports in tonnage entered and cleared are, in order, Antwerp, New York, Hamburg, London. A ship's consumption of fuel varies as the cube of the speed it attains. Derricks are named for an Elizabethan hangman named Derrick who was the first to use a single-spar gallows. Oldest ensign in use today is the Turkish, dating from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Ships and the Sea | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

Tigers 8Red Sox 4 Browns 5 Yankees 3 White Sox 5 Athletics 2 Senators 2 Indians 1 Cards 7 Bees 5 Pirates 4 Dodgers 1 Pirates 7 Dodgers 5 Reds 15 Giants 4 Cube 6 Phillies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YESTERDAY'S SCORES | 6/10/1936 | See Source »

...exerting his full strength at the end of a yard-long lever, equipped with a strain gauge to measure the twisting force. When the lever is rotated through 35°, the distortion in the little disk of material is equal to that in a one-inch cube one of whose faces is theoretically pushed 60 inches out of position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Squeezing & Shearing | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

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