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Word: stuffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should undoubtedly find N a number varying infinitesimally from person to person, slightly from dialect to dialect, distinctly from culture to culture, and vastly between the languages of primitive and civilized men. In fact, I believe that an understanding of N will ultimately lead to an understanding of that stuff called Life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Student Connects Analysis of Spoken Language With Einstein's Theory--Says Language Moves in Four Dimensions | 2/13/1930 | See Source »

...women (not children) who stopped to gaze and gape were hailed from the doorway by a clerk. Shouted he. though a traffic policeman was on duty less than 50 feet distant: "Come in friends! We're selling wide open! Just got $30,000 worth of stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: In God We Trust | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

...more we got in New York, and on Broadway one silver and black! Deliver anything anytime from 8 a. m. to 2 a. m. Just phone Murray Hill 7522 and ask for Mack. You see this cherry brandy?"-holding up a large bottle in which floated four cherries-"That stuff is 90 proof, ninetee proof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: In God We Trust | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

...inrushing player after hitting him. A body check should be made quickly and cleanly, and the defense man should then break clear quickly to launch the attack once again. The points are not last ditch defenses, but important cogs in the attack. The Harvard squad has the stuff; it lacks but the offensive idea needed to make it start going places. --BY TIME...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/8/1930 | See Source »

...wrote a biography. Lane knew agnostic Author France and admired him, but not nearly so much as he does Newman. He married young, has one son, one daughter. His literary tastes are conservative; he also likes detective stories, loafing, smoking a pipe. Says he: "I read very little new stuff. When a new book comes out, I take down an old one. . . . Writing I like as a sailor likes the sea?mighty glad to be done with it, and then very soon itching to get back to it again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Road to Rome | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

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