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Word: potful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Long Island or New Jersey chicken run, know what crimes may be committed over his carcass. He and 50,000,000 other chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys from all over the U. S. are shipped to New York City every year. Long before he fulfills his destiny in the pot or skillet, an amazing crime ring has its bloody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Poultry Racket | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

...forty-fifth annual Spring production, the Harvard Dramatic Club will present "The Watched Pot" by Saki (H. H. Munro) tonight and tomorrow night at Brattle Hall. The play will be in three acts, with the curtain rising at 8.30 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H.D.C. TO PRESENT "WATCHED POT" BY SAKI THIS EVENING | 5/4/1933 | See Source »

Tickets for the Harvard Dramatic Club's production, "The Watched Pot," will go on sale today at Brattle Hall and Daley's drugstore. Agents will also be found in the Freshman Union and the seven Houses. The prices for reserved seats are $2 and $1. General admission is to be $.50, it was announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEATS FOR DRAMATIC CLUB PRODUCTION ON SALE TODAY | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

Life used to run a series of cartoons called "The Skeptics Society" which showed earnest-looking savants solemnly testing and rejecting such saws as "A watched pot never boils" and " 'Tis an ill wind that blows nobody any good." Last week, after four years of research, a Columbia University pedagog announced that he could disprove nearly all of such adages, superstitions and unfounded beliefs. He is Dr. Otis William Caldwell, 63, director of the Institute of School Experimentation at Teachers College, and he has checked up on superstition with many a questionnaire, many a column of figures. He calculates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Skeptics | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...only to members of the University. Three of four of her old stories have recently appeared in magazines. Lois Moran is 23 years old and her favorite actors are Leslie Howard and Francis Lederer. Miss Moran is expected to attend the dance following the first performance of "The Watched Pot" on Thursday, May 4, at Brattle Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOIS MORAN WILL DIRECT DRAMATIC CLUB REHEARSAL | 4/27/1933 | See Source »

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