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Word: pencils (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...restore ink or pencil marks which have been erased. Two years ago, M. Edwin O'Neill of the Crime Laboratory discovered how to restore ordinary ink erasures, published his findings. Just before the Crime Seminar opened he had found the chemical talisman for red and green inks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Crime Seminar | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...morning last week, a tall, austere man sat at his desk in the open city room of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, scribbling with a thick blue pencil. Few minutes later his memo was posted on the bulletin board. It read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Sealed Envelope | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...this thought which must, says Strachey, animate "The New Model" Labor Party of England and the U. S. At present, he confesses, The New Model is mostly in rough pencil sketch. But he is immensely confident in his expectation of shortly going into mass production. For the U. S., all that is now needed is to create a Labor Party, enroll a couple of hundred thousand more Communists to start the Labor Party off on the Left foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Model Labor | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...such a simple development-like putting an eraser on the end of a pencil," said Inventor Valentine. Since it costs only $200 to equip a camera with the prism, the price is negligible by Hollywood standards and Mr. Valentine expects that his improvement will come into general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Suggestion of Roundness | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...laws to lend prestige to the margarine business. When Freuchen was gypped, as when he bought his island estate, Enehoje, or when a lecture fell through, or when his money-making schemes (such as eel and fox farms) collapsed, he roared with frustration. Absentminded, Freuchen tucked his pencil in his beard when preoccupied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Dane Tamed | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

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