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Word: invitee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The death ray, always exciting to laymen, is an old familiar to scientists. After the interplanetary "spaceship," it is probably the most popular gadget in pseudo-scientific fiction. Even in Herbert George Wells's shrewdly written War of the Worlds (1898), the first act of arriving Martians is to spray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tesla's Ray | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

Last month, a Los Angeles Grand Jury indicted David Allen and an obscure cinemactress named Gloria Marsh for immorality. Last week the testimony of an extra whose name was not revealed was made public. The extra charged that Allen & Miss Marsh had entered a beauty shop where she was employed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Casting & Misconduct | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

In 1789' the year that Congress passed its first law. the settlers on the U. S. frontier, instead of hiring contractors to build their houses, used to invite neighbors from miles around to do the job. At

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TARIFF: Contractor-in-Chief | 6/18/1934 | See Source »

New plans for the annual drive for textbooks for the Phillips Brooks House Textbook Loan Library will swing into action next Tuesday, the first day of Final Examinations, it was announced yesterday. This year men will be posted at all the examination place to invite students to donate their no...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P. S. H. TEXTBOOK DRIVE TO COMMENCE NEXT TUESDAY | 5/24/1934 | See Source »

Let's help her to a machine. I will, if you will. You might induce some of the impartial police, personally, to join us: Chief Cato. for example. I may ask some picked ranchers to come in on it and your Mr. Secretary Smith could invite the highbrow newspapermen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 14, 1934 | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

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