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Word: jersey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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CRIMEFILE NUMBER 3: FILE ON FENTON AND FARR - Q. Patrick - Morrow ($2.25). Two deaths, both by gunfire in a New Jersey boys' school; five suspects, most of them on the school staff; clues including photographs, lipstick, telegrams, bound in the volume, as in other Crime-files. Good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...friend found Spit a job fortnight ago with an ice cream manufacturer. Salary: $15 weekly; first duty: to bring a nanny goat from New Jersey to Manhattan for the manufacture of goat's-milk ice cream. Last week Spit's case came before Magistrate Kross for disposition. Swaggering, Spit announced he had turned down the job. Said he: "I told the guy I'd shove the goat down his throat. Goats stink; the salary stinks, too. It was a publicity stunt. I can get better jobs than that; besides, I want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Sequel | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...Among startling unlocked for discoveries were X-rays, natural radioactivity, artificial radioactivity. X-rays caused such a furor among laymen after their discovery by Roentgen that the New Jersey Legislature introduced a law forbidding their use in opera glasses, for fear that prurient individuals would be able to see through the garments of ladies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: X-Particle | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...Dartmouth speakers will be Howard Van Riper '38, of Jersey City, N. J., and Stanley M. Brown '39, of Bradford...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Opposes Debaters With Dean Pound Presiding | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...show will tour to Worcester, Northampton, Englewood, New Jersey, and Hamilton, Bermuda. While in Bermuda, the production will occupy the Bermuda Opera House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHITTEMORE TO PLAY LEADING ROLE IN H. D. COMEDY IN DECEMBER | 11/23/1937 | See Source »

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