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Word: cat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Theodore H. White is a 24-year-old Harvard graduate with short legs, freckled face, cocky eyes, indomitable spirit, a compassion for suffering people, and a curiosity which would cost a cat all nine of its lives in no time. At Harvard he sold newspapers to keep himself in shirts, tooted a trumpet to keep himself in spirits, and did just enough studying to keep himself in the top 20 of his class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Eagles in Shansi | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...great majority of us are snowed under by an avalanche of medical journals. Too many doctors choke their offices with unopened magazines 'useful to throw at the cat,' and the only way a busy physician can keep up with his field is to clip and catalogue practical articles. Facts may be said to be buried rather than recorded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: To Throw at the Cat | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Cat and the Canary (Paulette Goddard, Bob Hope, Gale Sondergaard; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Cat and the Canary (Paulette Goddard, Bob Hope, Gale Sondergaard; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Iowa City's Courthouse to hear the finals in a county declamation contest. Schoolmarm Campbell was there, too. So was laughing-eyed little Irene Leonard. Irene, 7, stepped up and recited a story, entitled "Paddy's Pets," about a little girl whose pet dog and cat jumped out of her father's overcoat pockets in church. When her pupil was declared winner of the contest, Miss Campbell permitted herself a proud smile...

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

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