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Word: tooing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cook, too, had his troubles. In December, 1909, the Explorers' Club expelled him because it disbelieved his claim to have climbed Alaska's 20,300-ft. Mount Mc-Kinley, highest peak in North America, in 1906. He got mixed up in some oil stock frauds, served five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gold Brick? | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Pat O'Malley is a fruity, beet-red, Lancashire-born Irishman who was introduced to the U. S. four years ago with Templeton and Jack Hylton's orchestra. His specialty: English North Country songs, the phlegmatic Lancashire monologues that have made Gracie Fields Britain's top entertainer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Templeton Time | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

One mess Dr. Greene's clinic had to clean up was the havoc created among the wartime generation by the song K-K-K-Katy, which apparently started countless hundreds stuttering involuntarily. Then along came the Three Little Fishies, with a threat of a new generation of baby talkers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Villainy | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Miss Campbell, who has been at this school seven years, knows her children and their families well. She stops to chat at their houses, is often invited to their parties or to stay overnight. Brought up in Iowa City, where she graduated from high school, she studied at Cedar Falls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Schoolmarm | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Miss Campbell thinks that she has been in this school too long, would like to go on to a bigger one. Next year she plans to take Saturday courses at the University of Iowa. Her teaching salary now is $72.50 a month (she began at $40). Her restaurant job helps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Schoolmarm | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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