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Word: eaten (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cinema theatres that show double features make more money than single-feature theatres. To the motion picture industry that fact is clear indication that double features are what the public wants. But anybody who has ever eaten too much candy knows that what the public wants and what it ought to get may be two different things. Last week in two important cinema centres the double feature was getting a thorough going over, to determine 1) whether the public really prefers the double bill, and 2) whether its eyes are not bigger than its stomach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Double Trouble | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...North Dakota to a 19-room house at Columbia Falls, Mont., Antone Hoerner killed & cured enough hogs to make sausages and ham to carry them through the winter. Shortly before Christmas nine well-fed Hoerners simultaneously took sick at their stomachs, vomited, developed fever. Doctors thought that they had eaten apples from which poisonous insecticide had not been thoroughly washed. As more Hoerners took sick with the same symptoms, doctors suspected typhoid fever. But by the time ten-year-old Daniel Hoerner died, doctors knew that an epidemic of trichinosis had befallen the huge household. The sausages taken from their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sick Sausages | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

Cutting out the photograph and without explaining his reasons, the reporter showed the picture to two waiters. Immediately both recognized it as that of the man who at odd hours had eaten there three times in the past three days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Believe Burgess Found in West Virginia As Newshawk Sports Him In Lunchroom | 1/6/1938 | See Source »

Positive I saw William Burgess having lunch at local restaurant. Upon realization of identity returned to restaurant and he had gone. Showed picture without explanation to two walters. Both identified it instantly. Said this is third day he had eaten there at odd hours. If Burgess is unfound will try further to locate suspect and positively identify. (signed) Harold W. Ball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Believe Burgess Found in West Virginia As Newshawk Sports Him In Lunchroom | 1/6/1938 | See Source »

...Indigent matter cannot be eaten without serious consequences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Words | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

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