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Word: sours (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Caught in the grip of a flood problem that has vexed mankind since pre-historic times, Mr. Westcott and his much-lampooned kitchen fell victim last week to the sinister power that is sour milk. Science, with all its starry array of meat-choppers, lemon-peelers, and assembly lines for manufacturing potatoes an gratin, had no way to tell of the fallibility of the bovine world till the crescendo of sensitive student's protest reached a revolutionary shout. A system so mechanically perfect, yet so hard and insensitive to the demands of the taste buds, has lived too long with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MATTER OF TASTE | 3/26/1936 | See Source »

...very impressvely sums up the last twenty-five years in all their hectic strife. But the trick is worth only one rendering, and that has already been given by a much more charming pair of warriors, Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert, in "The Bride Comes Home". "Love Before Breakfast"; sour belches after

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/21/1936 | See Source »

...friendly William Christian Bullitt's lavish U. S. Embassy, good news awaited Roy Wilson Howard, orchidaceous board chairman of Scripps-Howard Newspapers. Stalin would see Publisher Howard on Sunday and Stalin did, to the sour vexation of Moscow's regular correspondents. Cabled the Herald Tribune's Joseph B. Phillips: "[The] interview which Joseph V. Stalin gave to Roy W. Howard ... on Sunday . . . has just been whipped into shape for release by the Commissariat of Foreign Affairs [on Wednesday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Brass v. Steel | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

...pelt, bought by Melville Steil, president of Simpson Furs, Los Angeles, brought $465. At the close of the auction, Host Fromm said he had not been "so much gratified" since the day in 1917 when the Fromm brothers paid off the mortgage on their mother's farm. Only sour note came when a Chicago buyer attempted to make off with two bottles of scotch. The Fromm brothers-President Edward, 44; Vice President Henry, 41; Treasurer Walter, 46; Secretary John, 42-got into the fox-raising business in 1909. They followed the trail of a fox & pups to the foxhole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Furs from .Fromms | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

Democratic Representative Doughton: A loose harangue from a sour, disappointed has-been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Warrior to War | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

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