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Word: bored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They gave her all proceeds from the smithy except what they needed for personal expenses. She also had small faith in banks. This, says Jimmy Hines, explains why he had no bank account after 1908, why he carried large sums of cash. After he married in 1904 his wife bore him three sons and took care of most of his finances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Portrait of a Boss | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...Publisher Wilfred John Funk of the deFunked Literary Digest started a new publishing venture, a 128-page, digest-size, 25? "Popular Guide to Desirable Living," Your Life. Publisher Funk's formula was as simple as it was shrewd: "If I talk about myself I'm a bore. If I talk about other people I'm a gossip. But if I talk about you I'm a damned interesting fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Funk's Amoeba | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

While her papa, Egypt's King Farouk, attended the exhumation of one of his royal predecessors, Princess Ferial (age four months) faced the world in her first picture. Egypt's adoring fellaheen fondly assured one another that the picture bore a strong resemblance to their late princess, Cleopatra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 3, 1939 | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...hilltop, where towns without flying fields will have to set theirs. Between two 40-foot poles, 50 feet apart, stretched a rope with a mailbag attached to it. From the sky one of All-American's Stinsons, trailing a four-pronged hook from its belly on a cable, bore down and passed over the rope between the poles. Out of the Stinson tumbled a bag of Coatesville mail. Neatly, the dangling hook snagged the stretched rope with the mailbag attached (see cut). As the monoplane picked up speed and began to climb the mail clerk in the cabin hauled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Pick-up | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Frenchmen Herr Hitler likes, it was a distinct compliment to get a look at it. It took 3,000 workmen months to dig the road, bore the tunnel and shaft and build the Führer's mountain eyrie. The cost ran into millions of marks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Fuhrer's Nest | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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