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Word: lot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chocolate bars for quick-energy food and an alarm clock will be the principle items in Buder's kit. His last words before retiring for some rest were, "It's going to be a lot of fun." He admitted, then that there is only one way the bet can be called off--if he gets arrested for speeding

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: Dunster Man Makes Bet, Starts Long 300 Mile Trek to Princeton on Bicycle | 10/29/1937 | See Source »

...suppose I'm what you'd call a cad." Besides a cad, one learns that he is an ex-Foreign Legionnaire, an ex-Paris tourist guide, an ex-husband, a part-time painter, a would-be cinema director. He lives in a trailer on a vacant lot next to a buffet known as Spike's Place. Spike (Edgar Kennedy) calls him to the telephone by firing an air rifle at a gong hung in the trailer window. His connection with Margit, until they make a deal, is limited to a friendship with her Bohemian sister Irene (Florence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 25, 1937 | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...messages to Congress Are a lot of boola-boola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Cohan & Friends | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

Edwin May Teale did a lot more, however, than sprawl on his belly meditating, more than setting down his meditations on paper. He went about making his imaginings real for other men and last week published a book, Grassroot Jungles* the fruit of six years' study and expert photography of what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Puck's Backyard | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...Harvard graduates in Boston constitute a lot of Boston but are not equal to the 6440 in New York. This lead has been gained since the last directory was published in 1934. There are 5700 Yale graduates in New York to 655 in Boston. New Haven has sent 3150 sons to Yale, while Cambridge has sent 1840 to Harvard...

Author: By John T. Mccutcheon jr., | Title: New York Now Center of Alumni, But Boston Still Has View of Buildings | 10/20/1937 | See Source »

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