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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Across the street from the White House in the green peace of Lafayette Square, U. S. Government workers continued to eat luncheon quietly amid the strutting pigeons at the foot of the baroque bronze statue of General Tadeusz Kosciuszko, the Polish patriot who was George Washington's adjutant in the Revolution and who fought most of his life for the independence and territorial integrity of Poland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shadows | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "Why, you might just as well say that 'I see what I eat' is the same thing as 'I eat what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 4, 1939 | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...Baltimore, Emil ("Feets") Cella, 35, who likes to eat hard crabs with the shells on, claimed a world's beer-drinking record: one-half gallon in 16 seconds, thereby besting his previous (1935) record of 17 2/10 seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Beer | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Author Boyle's little camel was puppyish, bumptious and a liar. Life had made his hard-working old mother cynical since the Arab driver jerked the ring in her tender mouth whenever she slacked up. She really wanted to eat green grass and drink cool water but, she told the youngest camel, "that's just one of the things that can never possibly be. ... Because your father never took out any life insurance." "What about the caravan of white camels with solid gold hoofs that goes right around the earth?" her son objected. "Hooey," said his hard-Boyled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Golden Hoofs & Ice Cream | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...Stadium now echoes with Jaako's barked commands as trackmen eat up lap after lap, having deserted the hot-house atmosphere of Briggs Cage for the cold oval...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletic Facilities Open to Freshman | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

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