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Word: talled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nett said that very little was known about Dodatmors--pronounced do-dat-more, with the last syllable strongly accented. In appearance they have large, somewhat square heads to make room for their huge brains. They also have high, slanting foreheads, under which a receding chin (which extends to their tall) begins almost immediately. When questioned as to why the fish appeared so calm and showed no sign of nervousness, supposed to be one of their chief characteristics, the doctor pointed out that their movements to and fro are of such rapidity that they could not be seen. He reluctantly admitted...

Author: By Harry S. Hayward jr., | Title: Unique Trio of Big Brained Fish With Phi Beta Kappa Mentalities flabbergast All Harvard With Their Antics | 12/15/1938 | See Source »

Captain George Truman at guard is the only other veteran, because Sophomores Bob Person and Tank Wilson have ousted Seniors Giles MacEwen and Bill Glatfelder from the center and guard jobs respectively. The Bears will present a tall crew tonight, and again the Feslermen will have to operate under a height disadvantage. The game is scheduled to get under way at about 8:45 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Feslermen After Second Victory in Tilt With Brown | 12/14/1938 | See Source »

...years ago. She had never made the cornuto sign behind her husband's back. She had not made love behind his back with her divorced husband Thomas Catanzaro; nor with Dr. Charles Stoerzer, sometime house physician of the Raymond Street Jail (her sometime residence); nor with "a tall, thin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: What We Call Cornuto | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...Tall, haughty and always immaculately dressed, wearing a white mustache and a wing collar, Benedict Cobb spent much of his time after his wife died in 1929 taking long daily walks with his nurse, Miss Miriam M. Caldwell, a vivacious Virginian. In a Pittsfield hotel last Thanksgiving Day, at 89, he died. In his will, announced last week, childless Benedict Cobb, last of his family, left $250,000 to his nurse, $450,000 to hospitals, a total of $1,340,000 in specific bequests. Yale got $400,000 of that and an estimated $1,400,000 in his residuary estate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Yale's Cobb | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...tall, slim, loose-limbed man of 37, Len Lye lives with his trim, pretty wife, Jane, and baby Bix (after Bix Beiderbecke) in a neat house and garden in London's suburban Chiswick. Before he went to England in 1926, Len Lye had worked as a farm laborer, carpenters' mate, quarry laborer, miner, packer, sheep-shearer and scenario writer for an Australian film company. In England he has earned his living as sceneshifter and flyman in a theatre, prop-boy in a film studio, "effect" man with film companies. Last month Poet Laura Riding wrote a pamphlet about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Film Painter | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

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