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Word: spoonful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Culinary processes will be carried out in one electrically heated vessel of some light alloy which will serve as a saucepan for boiling water and frying pan for cooking any meat permitted. Each astronaut will be allowed one cup (but no saucer), one plate and one spoon, and a knife and fork might also be taken to be passed around from hand to hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Payload to the Moon | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...spoon with a knife edge on the handle for opening eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Path of Progress: Feb. 6, 1939 | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...College, where she studied under Robert P. Tristram Coffin, and afterwards as an advertising copy writer in Philadelphia and as a country doctor's wife in upper Michigan, her notable successes were: 1) being sued by a villager whom she described too candidly; 2) winning a single silver spoon in an advertising contest (first prize: a whole chest of silver); 3) winning $14 for a contest article entitled How I Met the Problems of Adolescence in my Daughter, which she wrote shortly before her first child was born. Her first published novel, Fireweed, won the University of Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Doctor's Wife | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...along. Off they drove to Lincoln Park. "I want to play," said she, "but what shall I do? I'm wearing high heels." While a large gallery gaped and tittered, Actress Lawrence stepped up to the tee of the 184-yd. eighth, removed her shoes, borrowed a spoon, took a healthy swat at the ball. It fell short. She took another, got closer. The third ball plopped on the green, rolled 5 ft. 6 in. from the cup. Asked her handicap. Golfer Lawrence explained: "My handicap is the ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 22, 1938 | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...years since, five salvage expeditions, French, German, Dutch, English, have recovered no more than $200,000, a few cannon balls, a spoon, some brass nails and the ship's bell which now hangs in Lloyd's. Meanwhile, the Lutine settled down 70 feet through loose sand till she rested on the clay bottom. Last spring, Lloyd's licensed Billiton Point Mining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Sunken Treasure | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

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