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Word: pumpkin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...patted President James Augustine Farrell on the head-strenuously. Of dividends on the increased stock, the Judge said: "The dividend, I believe, will be 1% [as at present]." Scientist Robert Andrews Millikan will direct the corporation's research laboratories. Luncheon consisted, as usual, of sandwiches, apple, coconut and pumpkin pies, ice cream and coffee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Steel' Meeting | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...spread, like a batter of yeasted dough, over his hips and thighs. Then they cut* ?two curving slashes to form an ellipsis almost three feet long horizontally across his abdomen. This released a section of skin and fat that looked most like a slice of a huge pumpkin. It weighed (with other scoopings of fat) 31 pounds, and left a yellow gap across Mr. Phillips's belly, which the surgeons promptly closed by lifting flesh up off the thighs and nether parts to the steadier waist line. In three weeks he can be back at his gas station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Apron | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

...farm, so I thought, was picking up potatoes, but I liked to husk corn. There were many other jobs supposed to be a boy's size, such as going after the cows up in the pasture, washing the buggy ( this was before the day of the automobile), sticking pumpkin seeds, pulling weeds in the garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Untidy | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...favorite foods were dates, pumpkin, mutton. He slept on his right side, with his most holy hand supporting his most holy cheek. No flies, it is said, ever alighted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Fiction | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

...Where U. S. Steel Dollar Goes- taxes 4%, wages 7½%, material ½%, entertainment 13%, pumpkin pie 4%, annual report 5%, director fees 5%, net for stocks 3%, Bethlehem Steel competition 29%, expert accounting fees 29%. Where U. S. Steel Dollar Comes From- expert accounting 48%, production 2%, employes subscription fund profits 25%, stockholders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Lycidas | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

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