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Word: bearskin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, as the university's brand-new president, Terris Moore had just met the faculty, accepted a world's record brown bearskin for the university museum and got settled for the summer in the girls' infirmary while a house was being built for him. A week before, Alaskans had come from miles around to say goodbye to the university's founder and first president, leathery Charles E. Bunnell (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Assignment in Alaska | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...Going to the Feelies this evening, Henry? I hear the new one at the Alhambra is first-rate. There's a love scene on a bearskin rug; they say it's marvelous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: The Smellies | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...alley at three minutes after midnight and everything will be made clear. The first of them who comes out honestly and admits that the hocus-pocus of the Dow theory made him miss nine weeks of the bull market will deserve a seat on the Stock Exchange, upholstered in bearskin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: A Question of Identity | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...heating problem varies from car to car, Morse finding that enough heat sifts up through the floorboards to keep even the most southern belle warm, while Michael D. MacFarlan '49, whose graceful Lincoln convertible is pictured above, is in the market for a bearskin...

Author: By Paul Back, | Title: Horseless Carriages Back to Spew Flame on Carless Postwar World | 10/25/1946 | See Source »

...captains, $10 to waiters, up to $5 to busboys, with an extra $1 each for winning smiles). Reputed to be a soft touch for any & all hard-luck stories, he favors midnight blue shirts with white silk ties, drives a black Lincoln limousine equipped with siren, white bearskin rug, New York license plate (MH 1) and bulletproof glass (gift of a former gangster acquaintance). Hollywood also reveres Hellinger for his seemingly inexhaustible stock of excellent liquor, his fondness for intricate practical jokes and his small superstitions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 9, 1946 | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

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