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Word: fountain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fountain-pen until you see the whites of their eyes," is the advice of older students with high records for getting instructors' signatures, and they offer simple strategy. The student desiring a particular signature should dress himself as a member of the maintenance department and enter the teacher's apartment on the heels of the maid. Sooner or later the victim, too, will go into his room to get his mail, and, if the student's disguise is a good one, will not notice anything until the intruder grips him by the elbow and takes one of the three types...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SANTA CLAUS IN UNIVERSITY C | 12/8/1937 | See Source »

While Washington observers saw in the Vinson appointment a Roosevelt gesture to the House less likely to backfire than the appointment of Senator Hugo Black to the Supreme Court, courtly Chairman Henry Fountain Ashurst of the Senate Judiciary Committee could not resist a sly dig as his committee received the appointments for confirmation. Indicating to newshawks that he might have to hold on them the extensive public hearings which Nominee Black did not get, Senator Ashurst put his old tongue in his cheek, observed: "You may say that the Judiciary Committee will proceed with exasperating slowness as has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tax Man | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...there is one thing particularly enjoyed by Arizona's florid, courtly Henry Fountain Ashurst, it is disseminating bits of the complex philosophy he has acquired in his 25 years in the U. S. Senate. Last week Senator Ashurst had a characteristically involved witticism to deliver. Said he: "In times of classical antiquity there were two things unpredictable: the way of a man with a maid, and the way of an eagle on a rock (which way it will fly)." The last decade, according to Senator Ashurst, has added another equally profound human uncertainty: "What will Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: In Session | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...really am better. Last night seems very far off. Sometime I will have to think about it--objectively. God, I'm hungry! Rest, sleep--healing, wonderful, the Fountain of Youth, a sulphur bath. (My father takes sulphur baths.) Like a mountain stream: cool, trebling, ceaselessly flowing. What is it? Who knows what it is? It alone has the same value for eternity; it alone is worthwhile. Boy, smell that bacon! I'll be down there in a jiffy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/5/1937 | See Source »

...more drinks here until the leaves come back to the trees, and the Tercentenary fountain, restoration of an earlier Harvard landmark, returns with the spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YARD PUMP DISCONNECTED, AS THERMOMETERS NOSEDIVE | 11/2/1937 | See Source »

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