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Word: stuffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greek," exploded Mr. Murphy, letter-carrier extraordinary of the Yard in a recent interview. "Those teachers made me keep on taking Greek and Greek and more Greek until I just couldn't stand it any more, so I ups to the principal and says, "I can't do this stuff, I never wanted to, and still don't and never will. I quit this school right now, and to the devil with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Greek Classics Of Little Use To Cynical Mail-Carrier Who Abandoned Books In Disgust--Urges More Practical Courses | 3/9/1932 | See Source »

Threading his way through assembled chorus girls, stage men ropes and trunks, he then went on in the famous telephone skid. Coming on stage he signed, "The trouble with a show's running a long time is that people social all the original stuff, so that new joke material has to be thought up all the time. If is the same way with the music, only we can't change that although the radios make everyone familiar with the tunes in the show long before people ever get to see it." Changing the subject suddenly he said. "You know there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fred Allen Has Yen to See Two Dwarfs in Tug-of-War With Piece of Dental Floss--Fascinated by Stimson's Mustache | 2/18/1932 | See Source »

Pros & Cons, Governor Roosevelt's proximity to that nomination raises pregnant questions: What manner of man is he and of what stuff is he made? Is he bold and courageous and independent or is he just an honest politician whom Fate has tossed to the top? Has he the capacity to govern? Does his mind generate large ideas of political reformation or does he just utter lofty platitudes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: The Squire of Hyde Park | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

...with no man for his master, caring only for the free life and indulging only in an occasional lecture because he likes it is fiction--unadulterated fiction. Day after tomorrow for example he wanders to Sever for a mid-year examination. Ah, there's the carefree life. Read this stuff twice, you don't see it often...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 1/26/1932 | See Source »

...King of Norway listened intently, likewise the Crown Prince and members of the Norwegian Academy of Science, to a report made fortnight ago by bright young Dr. Ottar Rygh. Dr. Rygh had learned how to store the mother stuff of Vitamin C, anti-scurvy. Because the process is important, U. S. nutritionists were impatient for his complete paper to reach this country. Significant quotations available last week: "It seems simple enough now. My task was to find a method by which Vitamin C could be produced in the laboratory in such form that it could be kept in storage without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Stored Vitamin | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

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