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Word: discoverable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The picture, which deals with the trial of Joan for witchery is an artist's, not a historian's, attempt to strip the legend-wrapped saint and discover the simple peasant girl that was the real Joan. She lives in the pages of Mark Twain and of Shaw, but she...

Author: By D. R. Jr., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/2/1930 | See Source »

Charles Baskerville was the first American to discover a new element. He established the fact that thorium, hitherto supposed to be an element is really a combination of two substances called by him carolinium after the State of North Carolina and Berzelium after Berzelius a Swedish chemist who discovered thorium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 24, 1930 | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

To discover what "comfort and prosperity" Prohibition had brought to Dearborn, the huge Ford factory-town outside Detroit, the New York World sent Newsman Kenneth Campbell. Investigator Campbell found speakeasies (known locally as "blind pigs") doing business almost at the factory gates. Fourteen were spotted in one block. Coffee houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dirty Work at Dearborn | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

The word and idea "vagabond"-lazy, casual, and (as he sings it) amorous in a far-off sort of way-has been curiously persistent in Vallee's technique, is almost the Vallee trade-mark-Vallée's vagabondia. His admirers may be surprised to discover from his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Swiss Bass | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

A definite attempt to discover the feeling of the colleges throughout the country on the drinking question will be made next Monday and Tuesday when a poll will be taken in at least 20 institutions. The results will be tabulated by the CRIMSON and simultaneously released to all colleges holding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROHIBITION POLL STARTS ON MONDAY | 3/21/1930 | See Source »

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