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Word: forli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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2) That Cook used a wrong formula for computing the elevation of the sun.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gold Brick? | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

3) That for a suspiciously long time he would not reveal his astronomical observations.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gold Brick? | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

1) That Cook could not possibly have carried on two dog sleds enough food for three men and the dogs for 82 days of travel.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gold Brick? | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Cook, too, had his troubles. In December, 1909, the Explorers' Club expelled him because it disbelieved his claim to have climbed Alaska's 20,300-ft. Mount Mc-Kinley, highest peak in North America, in 1906. He got mixed up in some oil stock frauds, served five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gold Brick? | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

New Pins and Needles (music & lyrics by Harold J. Rome; produced by Labor Stage, Inc.). Two years ago this week Pins and Needles opened, almost clandestinely, on Broadway. The basters and but-tonholemakers of David Dubinsky's I.L.G.W.U. were merely out for a romp; they ended by setting a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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