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Word: mexicans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sulfur water" out of a whiskey bottle he carries in his apron pocket. Newsboy Heckman makes his appearance running down the street yelling: "Light's out! Light's out!" He interprets the headlines to suit himself. Last week, by force of invective, he got rid of a Mexican competitor who could read no English and shouted nothing but "Beeg Wreck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Old Timers | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Queerest air tragedy of recent months was the crack-up of No. 1 Mexican Airman Francisco ("Pancho") Sarabia in Washington last June. One moment his stubby Gee Bee Special, the Q.E.D. was winging smoothly above the Potomac River; the next, downfluttering like a stricken hawk, it rammed its nose fast in the river bottom. By the time rescuers reached him, Sarabia was drowned. Shaken by the loss of their idol, Mexican mobs growled darkly of sabotage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Strangling Cloth | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...sell out in the Gilded Age. But he came home from the inevitable English visit twice the Anglophile of any of the others. He dressed for dinner, execrated split infinitives and democracy. What prompted him to walk across the Mexican border into mysterious oblivion, Author Walker does not venture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Golden Era | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...bright spot in old San Antonio until 1937 was its Hay Market Plaza. There, on the Mexican West Side at evening charcoal blazed under open pots and Mexican "Chili Queens" served hot tamales, enchiladas, tortillas, chili-&-beans, famed menudo (tender tripe and hominy) to customers at sidewalk tables. Then San Antonio authorities ran the "Chili Queens" off the Plaza as a "sanitary" measure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Queens Back | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Cadmium, an element of the zinc family, destroys red blood corpuscles when introduced into the bloodstream (as it might be if rubbed on lips or licked). Selenium, a dark red powder belonging to the sulfur family and found in German, Japanese, Mexican and other soils, is chiefly used for photoelectric cells and ruby-glass danger signals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Lip Poison | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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