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Word: waxed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...container marked Veritable Benedictine D. 0. M., taken from the shopwindow, was found exactly to resemble the French original in bottle and labels. But the two red wax seals bore the faint impress of a coin stamped with the word LIBERTY and below In God We Trust-a U. S. 25? piece, latest issue. Smell deceptive, taste unmistakably raw. Report by the Mirkin Analytical and. Pathological Laboratory, Inc., 133 Second Avenue: "Proof 90; alcohol by volume 45%; extractive matter [i. e. benedictine flavor] 23%; wood alcohol, none. . . . The examined sample is free from harmful ingredients and can be used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: In God We Trust | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

...used at Columbia University Teachers College, differs from the Montessori plan in that it stresses the child's supervised intellectual growth rather than its undirected development. At Columbia the pupil is taken to see a hangar full of airplanes which he is encouraged to copy in clay, wax or crayon in the classroom. Under the Dewey method, the child has opportunity for creative expression which the less plastic Montessori equipment does not allow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Return of Montessori | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

...HERE IS MARIA HAHN!"-or Ida Reuter, or whoever he had been talking about. As the coffin flew open a powerful jack-in-the-box mechanism would cause the blood-stained body of the girl-victim to sit bolt upright-or such was the effect of a life-size wax dummy doing duty for the corpse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Crime Club | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

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