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Word: mixes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like my uncle. He was the best man who ever lived. He always was helping somebody else. One time he found out that the young feller who tended bar at the saloon where he got his drinks was going to lose his job because he couldn't mix 'em right. Well, my uncle went down there one morning and put his foot on the brass rail and he said: 'Son, I'm agoing to stay here until you learn how to mix these drinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Feet to Fire | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

...stayed there all that day, teaching that boy and sampling the drinks, and by closing time the fellow knew how to mix 'em. That's the kind of family I come from, and I'm willing to stay here right now and advise the members of this body along good, sound constructive lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Feet to Fire | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

...Anna Schlorer helped her mother mix, bottle and label mayonnaise in the family kitchen, peddled it from door to door until midnight or later. After six years her mother formed a company and soon the mayonnaise, pickles, relishes, potato salad and other delicacies of Mrs. Schlorer's, Inc. were famed throughout Philadelphia & vicinity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Pay Cut; Throat Cut | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

Siam, one of the focal points of present-day anthropological interest, has been previously the subject of social study by Carle Zimmerman, associate professor of Sociology. Through his influence with the government this expedition was arranged. Professor Zimmerman is not the first Harvard man to mix in Siamese affairs. For many years now, the advisor to the government in the field of International Law has been a graduate of the Law School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANTHROPOLOGISTS MEASURE 4000 SIAMESE IN RESEARCH | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

...South, sugar cane in Louisiana, Jerusalem artichokes can be turned into alcohol. If produced on a large scale such alcohol could be produced for from 7 to 10? a gallon, figured Dr. Leo Martin Christensen of Iowa State College. At that price it is cheap enough to mix with gasoline as a motor fuel, especially if any need occurs to conserve U. S. fuel supplies. But to build the requisite huge farm distilleries requires considerable capital, probably Government aid, and therefore seems not wise at present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: For Farm & Factory | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

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