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Word: mold (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...semagraph," Inventor Green's device is based upon use of the photo-electric cell. The special typewriter used in preparing copy prints a coded combination of dots under each character. Each group of dots interrupts a tiny beam of light in the semagraph, causing the proper type letter mold to fall into place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Semagraph | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

Other anthropologists disagreed, notably Sir Arthur Keith. But Sir Arthur eventually recanted because (he explains in his latest work*) of Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey's finds in Kenya Colony 200 miles from the Oldoway gorge. The human fossils which Mr. Leakey has-he transported one in its aboriginal mold to London-are with little question pleistocene. They were built and buried like Oldoway. One had an iron ring around a toe bone. The ring seems a preposterous anachronism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Oldest Man? | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

Humanity is the mold to break away from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Harrowed Marrow | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...loitering by the wayside, gathering its hibiscus in shameful dalliance. These delinquents are the men who make Keys-to-the-City. Other locksmiths have been hard at work, stiffening bank-vaults against the professional marauder, fashioning Yale locks against the casual inebriate, while municipal keys have continued in the mold of the mediaeval rathaus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AVE ATQUE VALE | 2/5/1932 | See Source »

...banks of the Sbarmati River at Ahmedabad is 21-year-old Nilla Cram Cook. She arrived from Greece where she took part in the Delphic festival and where she spent two years in a Sisters of Charity convent accustoming herself to the contemplative life. Beauteous, of classic mold, she is the first U. S. addition to the Mahatma's platonic harem. She speaks Indo-Aryan and other Oriental languages, recently made a novel of her own eventful life. Her father was the late George Cram ("Jig") Cook, author, playwright, onetime director of the Provincetown Players, who, successively the husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Spinner Sails | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

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