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Word: glue (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instant after the whistle blows. Standing on the five-yard line, he watches the course of the ball through the air towards him. Swiftly it rises until it seems to be higher than the rim of the stadium behind it up and up in a graceful are. His eyes glue themselves to this careening brown speck. He remains motionless, staring at it in fascination like one hypnotized. . . . This is a game, old boy; it has started now. Forget that hollow stomach feeling. This is a football in the air; your anticipation is over; the future has become the present. This...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/22/1938 | See Source »

...between 14 and 20 (they are home near a medicine cabinet most of the time). Largest group of males are between 26 and 30. Whether they know that an ordinary gulp of iodine is seldom fatal, Dr. Moore could not say. He inclined to think not, however, since druggists glue a suggestive skull and bones to every iodine bottle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Iodine Suicides | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...then washed, dried and ground into the finished product. Since 1921 U. S. production of casein has risen from 8,000,000 to 40,000,000 Ib. annually. Biggest consumers are paper makers (who use 70% of the yearly output for coating book, magazine and wall paper), paint and glue manufacturers (12% each) and the plastic industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Wool from Cows | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...cube was then laboriously incised into the gesso and painted in tempera. The second experiment was made directly on a photostat. The form of each cube in this case was raised with gesso, somewhat in the manner of the raised letters in a medieval manuscript, and them painted with glue tempera...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections & Critiques | 5/17/1938 | See Source »

...confessor. He must be a patron saint. He must instruct his brood in what to read without letting them guess that it is assigned, and must conduct a serious class in an atmosphere of gay camaraderie. This may possibly be difficult. There will be those who will prefer to glue on their vencer of culture with a brush of their own choosing, who will resent this invasion of an erst-while informal field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BANANA SKIN? | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

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