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Word: salts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...society in 1895, the dinners always consist of speeches by members of the University and the singing of Harvard songs. The Colonial silver of Harvard, brought from the Fogg Museum for the occasion, will be used on the table. Most valuable piece in the silver collection is the "Great Salt" dating from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memorial Society Dinner Is Planned for Tuesday Night | 5/25/1939 | See Source »

...year-old Contralto Kate Smith. For eight successful radio years Kate Smith has used her booming, unschooled voice, plus occasional bursts of hearty Americanism to sell millions of dollars worth of cigars, automobiles, coffee and, since 1937, General Foods cake flour, baking powder and salt. From her paychecks she has tucked away $1,000,000, mostly in Government bonds, but she is still unmarried, lives alone. She has won 15,000,000 weekly listeners, but she can count scarcely a dozen intimate friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Kate the Great | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...Bakersfield, Calif., Teacher Hildegarde Case set out to prove to her pupils that plain foods are best, even for rats. To one rat she fed milk, whole wheat grains; to another, soda pop, salt pork, coffee. The first rat grew plump and healthy; the second even plumper. Suspecting a jokester, Teacher Case hid one night to waylay him. No one appeared, but in the morning she found eight baby rats in their soda-popped, pork-fed mother's cage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...Woodbury Lowery fellowships for research in historical archives, preferably those relating to American History in the archives of foreign countries and more particularly in Spain, for the first half year were given to William L. Langer, Coolidge Professor of History, and Claude T. Richards 4G of Salt Lake Cite, Utah...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AWARDS OF $9025 FOR GRADUATE WORK MADE | 4/11/1939 | See Source »

Last week Joe College was busy gulping goldfish. He garnished it with salt, with mayonnaise or with ketchup, and he chased it with milk, orange juice or soda pop, but one routine did not vary. Each goldfish was gulped alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Goldfish Derby | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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