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Word: sundial (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...company's property. Chad hung on. Then Clayton cut down the woods to make streets for the modernized town that was to follow his coal-dusting activities. Vesper, Chad's young brother, assisted by the town-idiot Kurd Foster, saved the Weather Tree, an oak that served as sundial for the whole countryside. Thereafter Clayton concentrated his attention on coal-bricks and Thelma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Homespun Tale | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

From a group of Girl Scouts, their famed "Buffalo" (Mrs. Herbert Clark Hoover) received a sundial on which was inscribed: My face only marks the sunny hours; what can you say of yours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 4, 1931 | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

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