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Word: muffler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends he is a sweet and lovable character. His absentmindedness is fabulous. He sometimes shows up a week late for appointments, goes to the wrong room to meet his classes, has been known to wander into ladies' washrooms. He often goes out into the snow without rubbers or muffler, but rarely catches cold. Despite his absentmindedness, he is scrupulous about fulfilling obligations, never breaks a promise. He used to make it a rule never to read manuscripts submitted to him for criticism by budding philosophers. But applicants learned how to get around his rule: they brought manuscripts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dewey at 80 | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...frame garage and the top of a Pontiac coupe therein, making a neat hole in the cushion of the car to the right of the driver's seat. It also broke the floor board beneath the seat, and made a slight dent in the car's muffler. The meteorite itself, however, did not hit the ground, as it had become so entangled in the springs of the cushion that it was snapped back up into the cushion by the recoil of the springs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Three-Point Landing | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

OLSEN AND JOHNSON, WALTER HUSTON, TEDDY HART, SOPHIE TUCKER, HELEN CLAIRE, BILL GAXTON, VICTOR MOORE OR GLADYS COOPER. YOU LEFT YOUR MUFFLER IN MY OFFICE. WILL YOU PLEASE SEND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 2, 1939 | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

When cancer and syphilis were under a general radio muffler, he aired lecture series on both. Last summer station KFI (Los Angeles), also Holliway-managed, lectured parents on their duties, illustrated the need for parental understanding by broadcasting the dramatized story of a 15-year-old girl with an advanced case of gonorrhea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Why Not? | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...year income. Some tony innovations: a Club Enclosure (special section for 150 $50-a-year members who come in bowlers and tweeds), "lifts" in the grandstands, five bars, a ladies' tea room. But in spite of Director Allison's attempt to elevate the sport above the "cap & muffler" crowd, soccer is still, for the most part, the game of the working classes. England's upper crust still prefers cricket and rugby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: September to May | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

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