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Word: fountains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the Congressional Record last week Arizona's grandiloquent Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst inserted a scholarly dissertation on ghostwriting. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Great Caesar's Ghost | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...famed fountain-hunter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art of the Americans | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...easier medium for me to think in." He has made a circus of bent-wire figures, a mobile setting for a musical work (Erik Satie's Socrate), in which steel hoops, colored discs and rectangles, "very gentle," move during the performance. At the Paris Exposition he constructed a fountain of mercury flowing through tubes; for the Consolidated Edison Building at the New York World's Fair he designed a "Water Ballet" of fountains from 14 nozzles, which are controlled by cams, squirt in choreographic rhythms in a five-minute cycle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Motion Man | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

Watch the water fountain this afternoon because Tom Healey rates as the number one Crimson water-drinker. He never misses a chance for a drink after an inning and usually gets one before and after. HARVARD COLUMBIA Johns, 2b rf, Stoltz Hoye, cf 1b, Stickel Grondahl, 3b cf, Radvilas Lupien, 1b 3b, Lambert Soltz or Lovett, lf ss, Luckman Tully, rf lf, Pill Fulton, c c, Desmond Keyes, ss 2b, Murphy Healey, p p, Dowd

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: NINE FACES LIONS AT SOLDIERS FIELD | 5/3/1939 | See Source »

...products of the Wartime boom in the chemical industry was the development of non-inflammable plastics. Until then the plastic business's chief claim to fame was the familiar, fire-hazardous celluloid collar. Since then the world has become accustomed to plastic toothbrushes and fountain pens, automobile steering wheels and gearshift knobs, radio cabinets and poker chips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Plastic Prospects | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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