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Word: patches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jody's pal is a pet fawn. He takes it on hunting trips, even sleeps with it when he can get around his fussy, practical ma. The idyl ends when hard scrub reality forces him to kill his fawn because it cannot be kept out of the corn patch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scrub Idyl | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...check through the Harvard library of star photographs revealed that the group appeared also on long-exposure plates made in 1908, but only as a very faint patch of light, doubtlessly mistaken by the observers for general background unevenness or a faint blotch in the photographic emulsion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Cluster of Stars Discovered By Camera of Harvard Observers | 3/31/1938 | See Source »

...crack at the new construction market, for most contractors still put oil burners in their new houses; 3) Mr. Banfield thinks that making an oil burner may turn out to be a clever way of getting oil burner dealers to carry stokers; 4) In case all attempts to patch up the languishing coal industry fail and it goes completely to pieces. Iron Fireman will not have all of its fuel in one furnace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Inconsistent Firemen | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

Radio City Revels (RKO-Radio) is a fancy patch of cinematic needlework stretched over the hoop-la idea of a songwriter who works only in his sleep. Fanciest flight: frantic Song Thieves Jack Oakie and Milton Berle trying to cure Sleep-writer Bob Burns's insomnia by tossing a lamb back & forth across his bed. shortcutting by having him start counting at 1,000. Current & Choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

Results of the Dramatic Club's annual elections were announced last night by Robert W. Woodward, '40, member of the Executive Committee. Samuel L. M. Cole, '39, succeeds Howard R. Patch, Jr. '38, as president of the Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dramatic Club Names Cole President as Election of New Officers Is Announced | 2/16/1938 | See Source »

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