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Word: warmed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the title of "Paint-Brush Song" Mr. Derek Beamish (stet) yearns boozily in alternate rymeless and meterless stanzas to be as cool as brook water and as warm as seasand. The seasand is about the hottest part of this effusion and our personal suspicion is that what Mr. Beamish needs is a cold head towel and a turkish bath...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEEBE FINDS ADVOCATE SOURLY IMPERTINENT | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

Every day in Manhattan hundreds of Interborough Rapid Transit subways charge through the warm odorous gloom underneath the streets. Uptown they soar to daylight on elevated tracks, downtown they dip beneath the east river to Brooklyn. I. R. T. advertisements say that 1,000,000 people ride them daily. Each ride costs a nickel. I. R. T. potentates have long claimed that the nickel fare is not enough to meet expenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Nickel Victory | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...churchgoer who put 10? into the collection plate each and every Sunday of last year may warm his piety at the comforting thought that he was twice as generous as the average churchgoer. Authority for the fact that 5? is the average contribution, is the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, which published figures last week. The most generous State: New Jersey, 12.2? per churchgoer per Sunday. Virginia, the Carolinas, Washington and eleven other States averaged less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 5 | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

Taking advantage of the warm weather yesterday Team A and Team B of the University baseball squad, outdoors for the first time, engaged in an abbreviated game on the Soldiers Field diamond, in which team. A outplayed its rivals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASEBALL PLAYERS HAVE FIRST OUTDOOR PRACTICE | 3/23/1929 | See Source »

...dusk, years ago, the onyx clock struck the somber hour of nine and the little fair haired child ran to his mother's knee to say his prayers. When he came to the end with, "bless father", he was startled by a large warm tear fallen from his mother's great brown eyes. Then he too knew that father would not be home until late, and --. But the girls of Akron University have been to the movies too often to fall prey to the mere tailor made suavity of a smiling male. When their little Willie of the future says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MATERIALISTS | 3/19/1929 | See Source »

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