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Word: personent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When a person comes within two feet of any of the books the state of equilibrium is disturbed and a high frequency current is set up. This current produces a light signal which can be located in a janitor's office or in any other suitable room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPEEDING EXPERT McCALEB BUILDS NEW BURGLAR ALARM | 5/19/1938 | See Source »

...study of the Classics. Instead, this newspaper is typically American in its blind attachment to the prejudices of its readers. It echoes the modern glorification of the social sciences as the only valid approach to the problems of our day--an attitude which seems ridiculous to a person who has any remote interest in the antiquity of Greece and Rome. It is a strange thing that seemingly intelligent people consider the Classics as "a dull joke" or "definitely exotic" or commit the old fallacy of expressing the term "dead languages" in a tone of contempt. To postulate as a self...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 5/18/1938 | See Source »

...five out of six "standard" astrology books that Dr. Farnsworth examined, it appeared that a person born under Libra ("The Scales"), seventh of the zodiac's twelve signs, should have musical ability. Libra's children are those born from September 24 to October 23. Looking up the birth dates of 1,498 musicians, Dr. Farnsworth found that fewer were born under this sign than under any other except Scorpio. Libra and Scorpio were in fact tied for last place as musician-makers. Thus in picking a musical sign the astrologists could have made ten better choices than Libra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Libra | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...course, may not smoke on jobs, must take regular exercise, have regular drill under the eye of an exMarine, marching to their own bugle corps. Most are high-school or college boys and Andy Frain likes to think he has helped put more men through school than any other person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Frain's Boys | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...rule does not however give an absolute free hand to Crimson athletes for the Athletic Committee stipulated that any person contemplating summer athletics must firs receive permission from the Director of Athletics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RULE CHANGED FOR PARTICIPATION IN SUMMER ATHLETICS | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

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