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Word: pies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...professionals and public-spirited citizens, and by the New York State Nurses Association, the Todd campaign got under way to a fanfare of agitation about "bootleg nurses." As horrible examples, the campaign literature cited: 1) a nurse who tried to feed a chop, two vegetables and a piece of pie to a child with a temperature of 104.5°; 2) a nurse who gave baths, accompanied by vigorous twisting and mauling, to a man with a fractured skull; 3) a nurse who thought that three one-quarter grain tablets of morphine made up a prescribed dose of one-twelfth grain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bootleg Nurses | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...Pie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Fire | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...Camden, Del., Farmer James Harris lost the silver platter he won as first prize in the pie-baking contest of the Peninsula Horticultural Society when Mrs. Hynson Cohee sent word to the contest committee that she had sold Harris the pie for 30?, and that she wanted her pie tin back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Fire | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...could talk because he never tried. Squatty and bearded, looking much alike except for Dopey who, being younger, has no beard, the seven dwarfs have timid hearts: they know Snow White is the Queen's step-daughter and will not keep her till she promises to make gooseberry pie. Snow White will not let them eat until they wash their hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mouse & Man | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...rate of anywhere from eight to 64 frames per second. What makes the Disney camera unique is its towering, 14-ft. framework. The camera peers vertically down from the top of this iron structure through several levels, set below it like the grooved shelves in a baker's pie-wagon. On the lower levels, various elements of back ground drawn in relative perspective may be superimposed, one over the other, imparting an illusion of depth in the finished print. Above these backgrounds the animation cels are grouped. In this process an average 750-foot Disney short takes two weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mouse & Man | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

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