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Word: showering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dozen bullet holes in the windows of Stoughton, with the accompanying shower of finely shattered glass, has given the inmates of this building cause for considerable concern. No clew to the identity of the sniper has as yet been discovered, despite the most frantic sleuthing on the part of the members of Stoughton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STOUGHTON SET TO WAR WITH DANGEROUS MYSTERY SNIPER | 11/29/1935 | See Source »

Yale turned up with a new gadget yesterday at the Junior Varsity game in the form of a portable shower. Managers would drag the machine onto the field during time outs, pump furiously, and refresh weary players with gentle rain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gentle Rain for Yale | 11/23/1935 | See Source »

...once considered handsome but illness during the past few years has left its stamp. He lives simply in small quarters, arises daily at 6:30 a. m., celebrates Mass, served by a boy sent over from Cathedral College. He eats little, grumbled about luxury when some friends had a shower bath in stalled in his house. He entertains not at all, but Papal Marquis MacDonald drops in and so does the most famed member of the Cardinal's flock?Alfred Emanuel Smith, who was to speak on "Communism or Communionism" at the Cleveland Congress. Last week before departing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catholics in Cleveland | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

Ordinary regal lilies are dehiscent: the pollen-bearing anthers swell, burst open, shower sticky golden dust on the blossoms, marring their virginal immaculacy. GE's lily, which owes its existence to Engineer Chester Newell Moore, is non-dehiscent. Mr. Moore was experimenting with the effects of x-rays on genes and chromosomes (heredity carriers in the germ-plasm). He irradiated 75 bulbs of regal lilies. Nothing noteworthy happened to the first generation, but among the second-generation freaks were two flowers whose anthers shriveled without releasing their pollen. From these two Engineer Moore obtained a true-breeding strain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: GE's Lily | 9/9/1935 | See Source »

...second wind and builds up to two of the liveliest climaxes in its director's career. The first arrives when Saladin (Ian Keith), the Saracen leader, kidnaps Berengaria. Richard hurries a siege tower, ladders and catapults to the walls of Acre, from which Saladin's soldiers shower arrows, spears and boiling oil. The second comes when, finding that Saladin is not in Acre but Jerusalem, the cavalry of the two armies meet in a head-on collision on the edge of a ditch into which a quorum of men and horses roll with neighs and yelps. With these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 2, 1935 | 9/2/1935 | See Source »

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