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Saturday, October 21, 1933
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The Headlines
PASADENA DOCTOR GETS NOBEL PRIZE; Thomas H. Morgan Receives the Medical Award for His Studies of Chromosomes. FUND IS NEARLY $40,000 Scientist Has Revealed Many Secrets of Life Through His Experiments With Flies.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Stormy Weather
Harold Arlen
The must-have
Charlotte Clark Mickey Mouse
You Share a Birthday With
- Alfred Nobel (1833)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772)
- Ursula K. Le Guin (1929)
- Alphonse de Lamartine (1790)
- Hongwu Emperor (1328)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
damefellaswelllousy
Hardboiled
clip jointgriftershamusgunsel
Swing Era
alligatorjitterbugkiller dillerin the groove
Tech Check
FM Radio, Drive-In Theater & Polyethylene.
Cost of Living (1930)
Loaf of Bread
$0.09
Gallon of Gas
$0.20
Average Home
$3,900
New Car
$640
Time Elapsed
33,830 days ago
(92 years, 250 days)