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Word: mouthing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question which has sorely troubled the cotton-growing South ever since the equivocal demonstration of the Rust mechanical cotton picker fortnight ago: If the Rust machine is eventually a success, what will human cotton pickers do for work? Hardly were the words out of the Secretary's mouth when the antipodal question vexed cotton planters in the Mississippi Valley and all over the Southeast: What was this year's cotton crop going to do for human pickers? Though wages were the highest since 1929, field hands were scarce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Picker Paucity | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

...Clinicians are familiar with malignant changes taking place in lesions produced by germs, particularly syphilitic lesions in the mouth and in tuberculosis of the skin. In the Rockefeller Institute Laboratory we have seen the production of cancer of the stomach following experimental infection by a nematode, that is, a kind of worm, and malignant changes in the liver associated with tapeworm cysts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Symposium | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

General Foods Corp. snapped at reporters: "Some one campaigning for Roosevelt said that every time I opened my mouth I created 10.000 more votes for Roosevelt. If that's the case, I'd better keep it shut hereafter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 21, 1936 | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

...page of my Psalms--which was of course the front page as this was supposed to be a book of Hebrew--and I was so surprised that the production man had to wave wildly from the control room to make me realize that I was supposed to open my mouth and speak my piece and not sit there and grin in surprise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hendrik Wiltem Van Loon Sees Future Harvard as Great Fortress of Learning | 9/16/1936 | See Source »

...States retailers would now get an extra package with every carton. Reason: Philip Morris sales had tripled or quadrupled in States where the free package had been supplied retailers. Cost of the 20 extra cigarets required to fill standard orders was charged to advertising- the valuable word-of-mouth advertising which retailers do across the counter. Neat point about the Philip Morris plan was that if any retailer starts to spoil it by selling for less than 15? a package, Philip Morris can presumably stop him by simply withdrawing its gift package...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Philip Morris Plan | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

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