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Word: pearse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recent tests show that facts presented in picture strips are (at first reading) grasped 10% to 30% more thoroughly than the same facts presented in words alone. And even the comic strips which offer only fantasy and adventure are not without their cultural value, argues Psychiatrist Lauretta Bender of New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Comic Culture | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

Once upon a hight (not quite midnight) as I pondered, if not weak at least weary there came a crashing on my door. Shoving aside change number 34 or was it 14, I staggered to the portal and was asked any, ordered to please produce some pears of wisdom for...

Author: By Sally Finlayson, | Title: Creating A ripple | 8/20/1943 | See Source »

>A short crop (12% less than last year, 6% below the last ten years' average) of peaches, pears, cherries and some other fruits.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Looking Up | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

The fruit and vegetables to be dried must be picked when they are just ripe and dried at once, before they begin to lose their freshness and flavor. Before they are put in the dehydrator they are cleaned, peeled and cut in small pieces; vegetables are blanched with steam, fruits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Home-Dried Food | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

> Total wheat production is estimated at only 730,524,000 bushels, down a whopping 26% under last year. Likewise down is the estimated production of oats (by 14%); barley (13%); rye (41%); peaches (32%); pears (21%); cherries (15%) and commercial truck crops (13%).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Near the Bottom | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

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