Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...silver open face stop watch, Suburban make, Swill 11 Jewels, Case number...
...explain the nausea that might have caused him to lose, certainly accounted for his failure to break the record of 2:31.1 made in 1933, Runner Kelley gave reporters an amazing revelation of a marathoner's methods. Last winter Harvard scientists who had often noticed him trotting around suburban Boston, secured Runner Kelley's permission to use him for metabolism tests. Before the race, they gave him glucose pills, each said to be the equivalent of a full meal, to eat when he grew tired. Said Runner Kelley: "I swallowed 15 glucose pills between Framingham and Newton...
...greenhouse was designed by Dr. John Morris Arthur, who last week indulged in a bit of Utopian prophecy: "This new machine will let the suburban householder plug in his greenhouse just as he plugs in his vacuum cleaner. It is almost foolproof in operation and all he will have to do is tend to his plants...
Interested spectators at this domestic duel are the Shales's suburban neighbors, a footloose wife and her browbeaten husband (A. E. Matthews). Good indeed is Actor Matthews' gloomy soliloquy on the virtues of the all-electric house he lives in, while pulling off & on a glove, a minute and abstracted gesture which somehow makes hugely eloquent his character's total dimwittedness...
Early in February 1932 a young woman named Patricia Maguire who lived in suburban Oak Park, Ill. and worked as a secretary on the Chicago Herald & Examiner went to see her family physician, complained of being extraordinarily drowsy all day long. Dr. Eugene Fagan Traut gave her a thorough examination, could ind nothing wrong with her. Within a fortnight the attack of epidemic encephalitis (sleeping sickness) from which Patricia Maguire suffered put her into a stupor from which she has not yet recovered. Her case attracted widespread newspaper attention. On the anniversary of her first symptoms, on her birthday...