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Word: roasts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...price of a "Georgian Special." Net profit, $4.00. A little systematic study and execution of the plan, say a student a day, would have brought in the hard-driving instructor a tidy revenue of almost $2.50 a week, depending on how long the wife could make the cold roast beef last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/21/1934 | See Source »

...calf would make a brake stand, but realizing that he was outnumbered three to one, and overwhelmed by this careful planning, the animal surrendered without a bawl. Ten minutes later the calf was once more safely ensconced in the Packing Company's truck, on his way to become "roast prime ribs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Miniature Rodeo Staged by City Policeman in Front of Yard Gate---Cop Bests Bawling Calf | 1/16/1934 | See Source »

...Roast Prime Ribs 13. Elementary Organic and Linguistic Torture...

Author: By I. D., | Title: THE CRIME | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

Patriarch Nakayama & party heartily enjoy the U.S., especially relishing strawberry ice cream, roast beef and fried chicken but regretting the lack of good boiled rice. The Patriarch greatly desired to go to Chicago by airplane but his five secretaries put their feet down. "Suppose you crashed?" said they. In Manhattan Patriarch Nakayama thrice visited the Empire State Building. He admired St. Patrick's Cathedral because he believes Tenrikyo has much in common with Roman Catholicism - its ritual is complicated and he as Patriarch wears elaborate robes. (But Tenrikyo includes rhythmic dances, camp-meetings.) One of Japan's best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Patriarch in the U. S. | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

...target they made. They looked so peaceful and contented. . . ." The Martin Johnsons were waiting at Kisumu (on Lake Victoria) with a big Sikorsky, flew them to the Nairobi ranch, amazed them with a dinner that any U.S. hostess might have been proud of- cocktails and caviar, soup, fish, roast turkey (the best I ever tasted), tiny new fresh peas, potatoes, salad, ice cream with strawberries and coffee." The spell of Africa for Frederick Trubee Davison is of far longer standing than his short tenure of the museums presidency. It goes back 20 of his 37 years to the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Davisons in Africa | 8/14/1933 | See Source »

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