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Word: dipperful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...singer a U. of C. Phi Sigma Kappa 27, Warren Lewis, U. of C. 27. All three have remained with the Brigadiers through then smart career. Now Horace Herdit and the Brigadiers are heard over CBS every Thursday night for a half hour, and they still have plenty of dipper college spirit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cuteness Does Pay | 1/10/1936 | See Source »

Angelina, the psychotic Portuguese, was frail, nervous and shy as a child. She wet the bed and had nightmares. This annoyed her stepmother. After Angelina began working as a chocolate-dipper she began to run around with boys, not for money but for trinkets, meals, good times. She bobbed her hair and said a kidnapper did it. Soon after, she caused her parents more anguish by dyeing her hair a flaming red and taking to bright-colored berets, tawdry dresses and high heels. When they found her bedding in a cellar with an Italian janitor's son, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GRIME: Why Girls Go Wrong | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

...grandson, he got a horseshoe nail and a hammer and knocked one out. Then I decided to make some pullers and do the rest of the job myself. After all my teeth was out, I made a mold on a brick. Then I melted things from the kitchen-a dipper, boiler, or anything-and made myself these brand new aluminum teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Bullet | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

...swung open to a blinding glare from the inferno inside. The ladle went in. came out full to the brim with a dazzling cargo which dripped down the sides in streamers and sheets. These were trimmed off by a furnaceman with a long hook as the ladlemen walked the dipper over to the mold, popped it through a door in the beehive, poured in 400 Ib. of glass turning from gold to silver as it cooled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pouring Day | 4/2/1934 | See Source »

Last night the Vagabond lay out on the lawn alone with his flagon beside him scanning the stars. Above the Dipper spilled out the dew and so bright it was that the little superfluous star on the handle could easily be seen. Lord Grey of Falladon, learned that he was going blind when the eyes which five years before "had seen the lights going out all over Europe" could not descry this single star. In the west over the shoulders of the mountain Jupiter glinted in a setting of dark blue velvet, and the milky way beat a track across...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 5/26/1932 | See Source »

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