Word: eurekas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eureka! In Yreka, Calif., Mrs. Dorothy Hill, troutless after casting her entire collection of flies, plucked a pretty red hair from her companion's head, landed two beauties...
...hide his light under a landing boat is burly, flamboyant Andrew Jackson Higgins Sr., president of Higgins Industries, Inc. of New Orleans. Among other things, Mr. Higgins produces a handsome, 21-ounce, 228-page magazine called the Eureka News Bulletin, to disseminate information about the beachhead craft he manufactures...
...whenever we advertise something-demmit, people come in and buy it. And then we're out of that too. So today we have scoured the Farmers Market in search of something that nobody could ever have any use for ... and B-ruther-r-r we have found it. Eureka! . . . down at Manny Vezie's Gallery of Shoe Reconstruction, we have a contraption priced at $7.50 that cannot be worth a shiny steel penny. It is useless, badly designed, overpriced . . . what it is supposed to be is a shoe shining set. . . . It's a silly gadget. We promise...
...once great and adventurous U.S. whaling industry, only a single station remains, near Eureka, Calif. But last week it had a new lease on life; with the opening of the whaling season, the station's whalers prowled the Pacific like men with a mission. Said Boss Whaler John R. Griggs, gazing pensively to sea: "There are a hell of a lot of whales out there...
Harvard's done it again! In a dusky and over-worked Physics B laboratory came the long-heralded "eureka," and a little spectacled man clenched in his fist the treatise proving the existence of the 93rd element. The strange thing about the new element is why didn't somebody think of it before. This, the one that Mendeleeff missed, has been given the formula Wo., and has been appropriately named Woman...