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Word: syrups (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Promoter Rose blandly explained: "Some times we get a little something added to it, and then sometimes we get a little something taken away. . . . We will be camped in a desert, and the head cook will walk up to me and say, 'We haven't got no syrup,' and even after nine years that he has gone on these trips with us, he will look around for the corner grocery store where there is no store in 20 miles of there. . . . Yes, sir, it is an unusual camping experience." Last week, having given all these facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Second Wind | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...five times in a row and I'll give you a fur-lined syrup pitcher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/14/1939 | See Source »

...petition signed by over three hundred undergraduates, Harvard has signified its eagerness to make America's "good neighbor" niceties more than diplomatic syrup. Harvard's curriculum cannot fill the demand. Its catalogue boasts only one half-course in Brazilian history, shared with Argentina and Chile, and one course in Portugese, given in alternate years and in old Portugese at that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LATIN MIND OVER MATTER | 5/3/1939 | See Source »

...worth on hand, not including some hogs killed this month. They spent only $49.64 for food they did not raise. Thin, round-shouldered Mrs. Majure has on her shelves 273 quarts of vegetables, 40 quarts of meat, six glasses of jelly, 99 quarts of pickles, 18 gallons of syrup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Plant-to-Prosper | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

Saint Francis, most ambitious and startling of the three, was a colorful, ingenious mixture of secondhand religious fervor with syrup of ballet: it caused terrific applause. Saint Francis had the advantage of a score by famed self-exiled German "Kulturbolschewist" Paul Hindemith (TIME, March 14), which proved to be not only top-flight Hindemith but the finest contemporary ballet music Manhattanites had heard since the palmiest days of Igor Stravinsky. To its subtly suggestive, drypoint phrases, Saint Francis (Choreographer Massine), in a medieval setting, pursued his ideal of Poverty (paradoxically embodied by demure, eye-filling Ballerina Theilade), tamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ballet Russe | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

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