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Word: inserted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...golf club with a drill in the top of the shaft for boring a hole in which to insert a wooden tee when the ground is hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Path of Progress: Jun. 28, 1937 | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

...tender and carried alongside the President Coolidge. Then for three precarious minutes the thread of Fred Snite's life was unknotted. That was the length of time it took attendants to take him out of his old respirator, carry him on a stretcher aboard the President Coolidge and insert him in another respirator. The shift was made without a hitch and Fred Snite Jr. sailed for the U. S. prostrate but undismayed. Installed in a twelve-room suite for his parents and medical retinue headed by Harvard-trained Dr. Claude Ellis Dorkner of Peiping, Fred B. Snite thus last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Life in a Respirator | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

...having two firms and two lines of books they can sell to competing publishers in a single city. Standard features a cheap encyclopedia. Into this they obligingly insert anything the buyer wishes to have appear. Thus the Philadelphia Inquirer is selling 200,000 volumes a week of the Standard American Encyclopedia whose A volume has a complimentary column-and-one-half biography of Publisher Moses Louis ("Moe") Annenberg. Hearst's New York Journal, selling the same encyclopedia, has in its volumes no word of Mr. Annenberg or his career, but it has got a nice item devoted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Battle of Books | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

Idea back of the Capitol Daily is to make it a sort of Congressman's trade-paper in which lobbyists will insert paid advertising to catch the legislative eye. Taxpayers, too, would have an interest in knowing, day by day, exactly what their elected representatives were doing in Washington's halls. Publisher with this notion was brisk young Henry Hayes ("Hank") Stansbury Jr., onetime New York American reporter and Paris correspondent for Universal Service. Subscription price: $15 for six months, free to Senators and Representatives. Competition in the field of specialized legislative reporting is David Lawrence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Capitol Daily | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

...spreads, Tatter's by Comic Artist Henry Mayo Bateman, who contributed "The Gigolo Who Refused to Dance"; Sketch's by the late Sporting Artist Cecil Aldin who drew a Dickensian "Christmas Coach Crossing Marlborough Downs." With art lovers, Sketch went one up by giving away a colored insert of "Ballet" by Dame Laura Knight, A. R. A. The London Sphere's Christmas annual featured the Victoria & Albert Museum's wax "Nativity," while the Illustrated London News had 27 color pages and some of the world's most brilliant whiskey advertising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Christmas Annuals | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

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