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Word: pails (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expect to gain support from people who will not receive the pension by telling them that it will bring back prosperity and a full dinner pail. Whether it will or will not is problematical, but the only way to find out is to try it. Certainly, if $200 a month to octogenarians will bring back prosperity, $10,000 a month to more people will bring it back 50 times as fast. That is simple arithmetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 17, 1934 | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...more than Darwin's. At the age of 18 mo. the prodigy, referred to only as "K," could converse fluently. At 20 mo., he knew the alphabet. Taken to the psychologist, K discussed the economics of the sales tax, explained how, given a 3-qt. and a 5-qt. pail, he could draw 7 qt. of water, asked his examiners whether they preferred his signature "printed or cursive." K reads on the average a book a day, argues politics with his father, wants to be an astronomer. Few days later New York's Bureau of Education went City College...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: At the Universities | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

...Because a rook upset his milk pail, St. Kevin condemned all rooks to be "sad, cawing and having the law of one another for very dismalness." But St. Kevin was far from cruel. When a blackbird laid an egg in his hand, he held it steady until it hatched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Beasts & Saints | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

...Zook's attack enlarged in cartoons on the idea that Mr. Avery's Gypsum was dumping building materials on Ward. In one cartoon never mailed, Mr. Avery explained, "there were three central figures: a cow, a milk pail and myself. The cow represented Montgomery Ward, the pail U. S. Gypsum, and I was put in the nattering position of doing something about which I know nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Damned Report | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

...theme song, "Hold Your Horses," to his mare Magnolia. When he refers to Magnolia's heart of gold a flap opens in her side, displaying a large gilt heart. A midget in a tiny horse's suit runs out on the stage with Magnolia's dinner pail, a feedbag full of oats. Broadway Joe takes the bag, pats the midget, blandly remarking: "That's her son. This is her fodder." Assisted by uncouth Dave Chasen, Mr. Cook finally removes his hack and horse from the stage. Messrs. Cook & Chasen have provided themselves with trainmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 2, 1933 | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

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