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Word: lot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaves are a good substitute for soap. Soap "deprives the body of fat," anyhow, and it is better to take a lot of soapless air baths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Beauty Hints | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...only console is that the American public is fickle. It soon forgets bad news the same as it forgets good news. We know that a lot of things will happen throughout the world tonight that will cause us to forget the things that were reported yesterday. But, please TIME, pretty please, give Cicero its rightful break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...life of an actress is not an easy one at all. Lots of folks think we have no work to do, but I have been kept on the run so much that I haven't even had time to see any of Boston. It's much quieter than New York, though, and I like it a lot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Simone Simon Has No Time for Love; Star Sees Little of City, Only Theatre | 12/7/1939 | See Source »

Since Harvard turned itself into a Communist university along with the University of Chicago and Columbia. Harvard Alumni are pretty disgusted with it. It may furnish a Communist President and a Communist member of the Supreme Court and a lot of other government Communists but it can't play the American game of Football or any other truly American thing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 12/5/1939 | See Source »

Sandburg bought this place eleven years ago, about the time he started work on The War Years, the second part of his biography of Abraham Lincoln. In the attic he put a stove, a cot, a few chairs and a lot of book shelves. Near a corner window he put his typewriter on an old box whose height suited him. He liked to tell people that if Grant and those fellows could run their war from cracker boxes, a cracker box was good enough for him. This attic and a room on the second floor called the Lincoln Room came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Your Obt. Servt. | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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