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Word: overlies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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In Salt Lake City, Joseph Schoelling, riding on his bicycle, crashed into the rear of a parked car, looped up and over, landed right side up, astride his bicycle on the car roof.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oddest | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Absolutely, Jimmy Bowen had done a sweetheart of a reporting job, the first of its sort the world had ever heard. President Roosevelt heard it in his library at Hyde Park. A United Air Lines pilot, flying 11,000 feet over Nebraska, picked it up with his auxiliary receiver, relayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jimmy Tells the World | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

The curly, cherubic Moylan Sisters, Peggy Joan, 5, and Marianne, 7, are radio veterans (two years) who chirrup in close, cricket harmony Sunday afternoons over NBC for Thrive, a dog food ("We feed our doggie Thrive, he's very much alive-o"). Last Sunday Peggy Joan and Marianne put...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: To Santa | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

In Chillicothe, Ohio, Mrs. Harry McNeal bent over to dry herself after a bath, backed into a heater named "Good Luck," branded herself with the name reversed.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oddest | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

U. S. Expatriate Henry Miller (TIME, Nov. 21, 1938). It did not do so. The book had been published in Paris in 1934 and was considered by severe critics to be, even in its fantasies, of extraordinary documentary power. It was also known to a number of readers as a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Talking & Doing | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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