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Word: discoverable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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As any inquiring reporter from Mars would soon discover, the Earth's most popular entertainers are not made of flesh & blood. They are a number of two-dimensional creatures whose native haunts are the animated cartoons. As every cinemaddict knows, the thousands of hand- drawn pictures that go to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Popeye Boycott | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

Columbia set out to discover what happens in the body to benzoic acid, a nitrogen compound used as a food preservative. In the test acid he substituted heavy nitrogen for ordinary nitrogen. Feeding it to laboratory animals, he found that about 70% of the acid passed through the walls of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atomic Scheme | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

Picking up whatever implements they could lay their hands on, a band of marauders broke into the school and proceeded to thwack, whack, hack their way through each & every one of its dozen classrooms. They battered blackboards into slate piles and desks into kindling, doused gobs of ink on walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Youngsters | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

Group 3. The University conducts a Student Employment Office in Room L, University Hall, to find work for those students who must earn part of their expenses. This service is furnished without cost either to students or employers. Men from all departments of the University may register. The Office acts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FINANCIAL AID AT HARVARD | 9/1/1937 | See Source »

"Most of them," replied the Vagabond in all seriousness, "possess to a striking degree the virtue of sincerity. They have come to Harvard to get as much out of it as they can. Soon they discover that the way to gain the best from Harvard is to give of their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 9/1/1937 | See Source »

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