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Word: pies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every day on the editorial page of the Allentown, Pa., Call (circulation 40,868, largest in the Lehigh Valley) appears a column set in what looks, at first glance, like an incredible amount of pied type. Closer inspection reveals a few recognizable proper names and some German-sounding words, but all set in English characters. The column carries the head Pumpernickle Bill, with a small drawing of a hayseedy fellow with stringy beard, corncob pipe, pencil behind ear. But no hayseed or pie-eyed compositor is Columnist Pumpernickle Bill. He is serious-minded William Stahley Troxell, 44, an ex-school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pumpernickle Bill | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

...formed Activated Sludge, Inc. and it joined in the U. S. lawsuits. Milwaukee was sued in 1928 and Activated Sludge won its first decision in 1933 against that city when its patents were held valid. President of Activated Sludge, Inc., is one Carl W. Johnson. Large in the sludge pie is the finger of wealthy Chicago Patent Lawyer Lynn A. Williams who was recently the successful defendant of a damage suit brought by a beach-loving fellow lawyer (TIME. June 21). Besides being a Sludge stockholder. Attorney Williams' firm of Williams, Bradbury, McCaleb & Hinkle is handling the sludge lawsuits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Activated Sludge, Inc. | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

When you lean back after your cocktail, oysters, steak, apple pie a la mode, and liqueur and you puff away on a Corona Corona you feel well satisfied with life and not a little bloated. But you have really just begun your meal according to cook books of the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries which may be seen by the undernourished and overnourished of our day at Widener Library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 16th Century Englishmen Like College Drunks Today ... Overindulged and Suffered for It Too | 2/5/1937 | See Source »

...causes of these outbreaks are vareid. Protein decomposition is probably the commonest cause. Meat and meat products of all kinds, fish, shellfish, milk and milk products, such as cream, ice cream, choose and all substances made with milk, such as pastry and pie fillings, may be the cause of the dirturbance. The food need not be spoiled, with disagreeable order and taste, yet may produce intestinal irritation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor of Public Health Administration Claims Recent Food Poisoning Common Occurrence in Any Institution | 11/28/1936 | See Source »

...received the congratulations of Al Smith and mobs of supporters, Franklin Roosevelt spent election evening with family and friends at Hyde Park. In the smoking room were installed teletype machines which chattered out bulletins of the election. In the library a long table was laden with sandwiches, pie, doughnuts, coffee, pitchers of new cider pressed that day. In the dining room the table was covered with charts and tables showing the trend of the voting. From room to room wandered intimates of the Roosevelt family: his former law partner, Basil O'Connor; his preacher publicist, Stanley High; his Treasury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Master piece | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

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