Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parke, Davis fortified A-rich halibut liver oil with viosterol (a concentrated Vitamin D), called the product haliver (portmanteau for halibut liver) oil with viosterol, and exploited the trade name Haliver so vigorously, that Mead Johnson last month took six consecutive pages of advertising in one journal to remind doctors, in large sultry yellow, type, that "The Fish's . . . Name . . . Is . . . Halibut...
...remind TIME U. S. C. scored on twice before during this year-in the Rose Bowl New Year's game Jan. i, 1932 with Tulane, final score...
Christopher Morley, whose taste is not always unexceptionable, might have picked a better name for his latest hero than Richard Roe. The name, with other Roe-ish actions and qualities, will irresistibly remind many a reader who has seen the Pulitzer-Prizewinning Of Thee I Sing of that forgotten man, Alexander Throttlebottom. Author Morley has not tried to make his hero heroic but he has certainly not intended to go to the other extreme and make him vicepresidential...
...this spirit of inquiry, he one of the objectives of President Robinson, curbing of ideas not in concordance with his own will be of no avail. Suppressing expression from college editors will lead frequently to a condition in which students heroically fight for a cause, resorting to demonstrations which remind one of communists on May Day. Reed Harris' case is an example of this...
...remind the House," Sir John continued, "that the police were met with stones, glass and pieces of iron taken from railings. I have seen some of these things myself and it is not playful to have a piece of railing weighing from six to nine pounds thrown at you. People who use that kind of missile are not really peaceful citizens...