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Word: devil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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While others planned a low-priced, easy-to-operate airplane, Taylor actually built one that has made flying obtainable to everyone from printer's devil to busy banker. The factory at Bradford, Pa. has increased its floor space three times since January and has stepped up production schedule from six a week to 20 a week and is still unable to keep pace with incoming orders. An auxiliary assembly plant operates at Long Beach, Calif, for the benefit of West Coast purchasers. This high-wing, 560-lb. monoplane is powered by a thoroughly proven 40 h. p. Continental Aircraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 19, 1936 | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...Artist-Publisher Mitchell drew the first Life nameplate with its mascot cupids, later contributed the famed masthead of a knight leveling his lance at the posterior of a fleeing devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Life: Dead & Alive | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...Devil's A Sissy" at Loew's State is proof conclusive that the movies have gone a long way since Jackie Coogan in "Peck's Bad Boy." The same jolly hoodlumism and almost the same human interest variety of pathos still hold the fort, but "The Devil's A Sissy" is never the less very good drama. Freddy Bartholemew, the pampered but unspoiled child of a jaded Park Avenue millionairess divorcee, takes up a six-month residence in the tough-district home of his penniless father...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT LOEW'S STATE and ORPHEUM | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...have no quarrel with the H.A.A. policy and believe that the players ought to get more of a break than they do, but why the devil deny that athletics, especially football, have gone "big time" or at least attempted to at Harvard? Your truly, H. M. Fuller...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 10/16/1936 | See Source »

...When the church bells began to ring and I started to read my prayer book, I would not be able to keep my place and I knew the devil was abroad, trying to interfere with my prayers," another of the women told the Recorder's interpreter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Witch | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

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