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Word: stuffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...owners consider it an honor to have dogs accepted for the Whitney Collection. Few people would stuff their grandfathers (though Enrico Caruso, embalmed, still lies on view in Rome) but the idea of preserving well-loved pets as they looked in life is more attractive. So far 72 dogs, all of different breeds, have been accepted for Yale. Many are still living but places are reserved for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Zoophiles Flayed | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...Lucky is the city editor or the baseball manager who can do his stuff without giving way to the jitters. He'd better be calm. If he isn't, sooner or later the city editor will be reading copy, probably in Pittsburgh, or helping somebody on a publicity job, or pasting up clippings and mumbling to himself; and the baseball manager will end his days as an umpire in the Three-Eye League or as the boss of a bowling alley in Peoria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: City Editor | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...good wedding. Croaked he: "In the old days when people used to throw rice, we had a vicar who would go outside before a wedding and confiscate all the bags of rice he could and give them away afterwards. But you cannot make a pudding out of this stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Confetti | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...clean getaway, but decides not to escape to Switzerland, to stay in Berlin instead. Then his frozen will begins to thaw. To his horror he begins to realize he has murdered a man who was not his enemy, who should have been his friend. Hertz, made of weaker stuff than Hoff, tries to persuade him to do as he himself has done: to compromise, to live with unlaid ghosts. When Hertz sees that Hoff is determined to give himself up, he shoots himself. By the time Hoff gets to the police his brain has begun to give way; he will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hero, Post-War Model | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

...Summer Stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Children of All Ages* | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

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