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Word: furnishers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps it is not generally known that the book of the same name, written by Mr. Theodore Dreiser and purporting to furnish the plot for this cinema, was conceived from an actual murder case occurring on Big Moose Lake in the Central Adirondack section of New York State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 14, 1931 | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...standard of their fiction and illustrations but often fall a step lower. Pages are packed with announcements of "red hot" photographs, vigor tablets ("Glow of Life"), bust developers, sex secrets, aphrodisiacs ("Essence of Ecstasy"), contraceptives. Plentiful also are the advertisements of so-called matrimonial bureaus which will furnish lists of lonely men & women, object matrimony. Stressed in the advertisements, prominent on the lists are Wealthy Widows. Sample advertisements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: We Make Thousands Happy | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...American Kennel Club has decided to register all pure bred dogs born in the U.S. on and after next Jan. 1, by litters. The owners of the whelping dam must furnish information on the breed, number of pups, their sex, markings, whether dam fed or foster-mothered. If litter registration is not fulfilled, the pups are ineligible for later individual registration. The litter record will be added to the bitch's register. Fees: $1 within 60 days after the throw, $2 thereafter; or for members of the constituent A.K.C. clubs, nothing for the first 60 days, $1 thereafter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Frog & Robin | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

...second cousin of the chinchilla) with stiff, reddish-brown fur, orange-colored teeth, and partially webbed hind toes, reached Manhattan from the Argentine last week. They were sent up the Hudson River on whose banks they were to be released to live on water plants, to breed, multiply and furnish a domestic supply of the fur which, when shrewdly treated, resembles badger and is called nutria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Goodnight Buffaloes | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

...independence uppermost in your minds, economics and other subjects must take a secondary place. The proposal to delay the decision 15, 20, or 30 years is not a plan; it is a subterfuge . . . a graveyard policy. Those opposed to independence should have the courage to admit it. Frankness may furnish information for which crocodile tears are no substitute. You are willing to pay the high cost of freedom and you will by orderly peaceful persuasion convince Americans of the justice of your cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Hurley v. Hawes | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

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