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Word: taling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subject depicted on the east wall is taken from the Norse legend, the "Ragnarok," the Doom of the Gods. The story is a very old one, taken from the "Elder Edda," as Icelandic tale of the Middle Ages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 12/18/1936 | See Source »

Locked deep in Widener's expansive hulk lie a red cardboard package tied with red silk cord, and a long wooden box, painted brown. Thereby hangs a tale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Centuries Roll Onward As University Officials Seal and Un-Seal Bundles | 12/8/1936 | See Source »

...newshawks who last week investigated the "miracle," Mr. White told a tale which doctors recognized as the history of a case of vitiligo, a harmless but mysterious skin condition which an occasional Negro develops. "About 30 years ago I had a little pimple on my forehead," said Will White. "I went to the barber shop and got some medicine to get rid of the pimple. Next morning I woke up with pimples all over my face. The medicine wasn't no good. The pimples kept coming and going. When they'd go they'd leave a white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Whitened White | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

Four men, who swore they had not gotten together previously, told the tale of "the poor damn side-hill gopher animal, whose legs on one side were longer than those on another, and hence he had to walk on the side of a hill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phonograph Records of Freshmen Voice Tests Show Oddities and Sense of Humor of Yardlings | 12/5/1936 | See Source »

...SHIPBUILDERS-George Blake-Lippincott ($2.50). Well-knit tale, a little on the sentimental side, about the decline of Glasgow shipbuilding as it hit a humane employer and a group of his one-time employes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Nov. 30, 1936 | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

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