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Word: haire (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Behn Riggs, Jr. '41, noted for his work in bubbleless ice and high-speed photography, is now experimenting in electrostatics. Recently he succeeded in determining the change in voltage caused by combing his hair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Scrapbook | 5/12/1938 | See Source »

Nearly 19 years ago, in a motion picture called The Kid, a saucy, bright-eyed little ragamuffin, taffy hair rumpled untidily under a tattered caricature of a cap, scampered into the hearts of the world cinemaudience clinging to the threadbare coattails of Charlie Chaplin. The kid was Jackie Coogan. Before he was 10, Jackie was a corporation, Jackie Coogan Productions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Kid | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Fortnight before, Jackie, at 23 a slight, blotchy-faced young man with a thinning patch of muddy blonde hair where once grew the Kid's famous Dutch-boy bob, had sued for an accounting of the great fortune he was sure he had amassed. From the San Fernando Valley mansion that Jackie's talents paid for, came the hurt and indignant cry of an outraged mother, the shrewd two-cents' worth of a storybook stepfather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Kid | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...English magazine for moppets, appeared last week an introduction penned by War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha for a story written by his late mother. In this she described how Leslie, when a lad, fell into the ocean and sank a considerable distance, whereupon "a most lovely apparition with streaming hair glided toward him. She had eyes of the deepest blue. Her skin reminded him of a luscious peach. Most wondrous of all was her body. It tapered off into a slender curve, which sparkled and reflected every color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Lovely Apparition | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

Strawberries are an expensive crop, costing $1.50 a crate to grow, 17? more for inspection, packing and auctioning. They are now selling for $2.20, due chiefly to James Morrison. He wears overalls at his farmers' rallies, waves his arms and lets the wind blow through his hair. "I am the Kingfish," he says proudly, "of the berry business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Strawberry Kingfish | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

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