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Word: hearses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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It is one thing actually to see something; and it is quite another thing to read and then see it, since there is bound to be a difference in the two pictures which meet the eye. For instance, read a novel, say Hardy's "Return of the Native"--with which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 12/13/1938 | See Source »

With that limitation in mind, the quest becomes distinctly discouraging. The names one hears most frequently are Nen Mexico's Circuit Judge Sam Bratton California's Circuit Judge William Penman. Senator Louis B. Schwellenbach of Washington, and then, a little farther to the East, former Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan...

Author: By Staff Reporter, | Title: Harvard's Frankfurter Believed Sure for Supreme Court Berth | 12/2/1938 | See Source »

The irony of that story is one that Margaret Sanger is herself the first to see. Behind the applause she hears a rumbling a thousand times more ominous than any that ever came from court or church-a rumbling from Europe's dictator-ridden countries, which distinctly do not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sanger Saga | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

The animal is placed inside a big squirrel cage which revolves when the creature runs. A faint musical tone sounds, followed after a short interval by a mild electric shock administered through the bars of the cage. If the animal runs the turning of the cage switches off the current...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Feeling and Hearing | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

This couplet, chanted by Gregory Edward Toole (microphone name: Willie Winn), is an idle boast, for his voice carries no farther than 1,000-watt WAAF (Chicago) can send it-about 100 miles. Chicago hears Willie Winn every morning predicting how each of 96 horses will finish in the afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Willie Winn | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

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