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Word: reasonsable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Psychologists tell us that the character of early environment forever afterwards drives a person to haunts related in some way or another to these surroundings. Perhaps such motives cause the murderer inevitably to return to the scene of his crime, or Hitler at the pinnacle of world power to indulge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 3/4/1937 | See Source »

Many memorabilia of "Honest Abe", as well as the axe, and of the Civil War period in general, are included in the historical exhibit. The objects range in size from the formidable ten pound woodchopper to an early photograph showing him in his young and beardless days. In the writings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Abe Lincoln's Rail-Splitting Axe Is Shown in Widener Civil War Exhibit | 3/3/1937 | See Source »

But whatever the attitude of faculty and guests, it is to the undergraduate delegates that the dailies must turn for judgment as to whether or not results justified the expenditure of time and effort. By and large the discussions were of undoubted value to the students who attended. The sense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BY THEIR FRUITS | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

The chief did not know that the egg was thousands of years old, that heavy rains had washed it out of a protecting alluvial deposit, but he did suspect that the white men in the town of Ambovombe might value it for their own curious reasons. That night the chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Elephantine Egg | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

Y. M. C. A. workers also campaigned for smoke abatement, because among other reasons, their laundry bills were higher than the laundry bills of Y. M. C. A. workers in Philadelphia and Boston. Property owners refused to paint their buildings or paper walls because smoke begrimed those coatings too quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: St. Louis Smoke | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

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