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Word: plates (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first nine was composed of Lupien at first, Johns at second, Grondahl at short-stop, a newcomer Ulin at third, and Gannett, Foley, and Hall in the outfield. Paul Doyle was behind the plate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REGULARS TRIP YANNIGANS | 3/17/1938 | See Source »

Landscape in etching has a fairly definite starting point. That is Durer's plate known as "The Cannon," shown in a fine impression. Remarkable in every way, it stands as the first pure landscape print, as an achievement in panoramic composition, as his last etching. It is all in line, individual strokes that build up the texture of the earth, even the tone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 3/15/1938 | See Source »

...wife of Jena's Professor Ludwig H. Plate, he sighed, "I do love you so." Frau Plate: "Oh! Don't try to make me believe that." Kurwenal: "I always speak the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Intentionally Witty | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...broad forehead, squinting eyes, a huge nose. She has trained many a dog, written many an article on the soul life of animals. Boldly she called scholars to "expose" her work, boasting that Kurwenal would perform when she was out of sight and earshot. Müller, Wulf, Plate and others went to her Weimar home to scoff, stayed to be yapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Intentionally Witty | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...sometimes difficult or impossible for police in patrol cars to read the license plates of a speeder because of headlight glare, fog, murk or because the lamp supposed to illuminate the license plate is extinguished. But such conditions would not affect infrared radiation. Last week Commissioner Foote's plan was to install in patrol cars infrared cameras which would snap a picture of the license plate of a car ahead under the worst conditions. By means of a mirror arrangement the patrol car's speedometer will be included in the picture, thus giving a record of the speeder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Science v. Speeders | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

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