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Word: abouts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flower. "What else could I do?" City Hall ferrets had their own idea of what the row was about: Franklin Roosevelt's devoted friend Jim Kieran was outraged "because the Mayor lately has buttered up Herbert Hoover.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: He Called Me a Guinea | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Few days later, the Vice President decided he had been called. It was the coldest day of the year: South Texas hunters knew deer would be running by the next dawn. While Lucas Zamora, the Mexican yard man, hung precariously in the tops of the live oaks, hacking out deadwood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: On the Hunt | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

This week the Department of Agriculture and the WPA in New Jersey set about getting women's figures taped; they started a WPA project to measure 100,000 women. Later this research will be continued in five other States. Each subject-matron, maid, scrubwoman, show girl-will be taped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: No Boondoggling | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

French department stores reported Christmas sales about 40% below last year. They were doing a thriving trade, however, in everything wearable, drinkable or eatable that devoted French women thought their men at the front might like. L'Amour is important to morale, and the State made it possible last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Christmas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Plenty of old-fashioned British Christmas cards were posted, but World War II set many of the King's subjects to addressing cards which were chiefly or entirely about winning the war, with "Merry Christmas" omitted altogether. Typical was a card on which a beefy British bulldog bestrides the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Christmas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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