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Word: bugaboos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yankee peddler. Its line, buckles, screw machine parts, purse frames, ornaments; leather, metal and bakelite specialities; automobile hardware radio tube pins, clips, sockets, soldering lugs; fastener attaching machines; fasteners for automobile, airplane and motor boat upholstery, carpets, tops, curtains; or luggage, footwear, gloves, raincoats, overalls, caps. Chief bugaboo of United-Carr Fastener is the ubiquitous zipper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Yankee Gadgets | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

...WATCH Cornell" has been the bugaboo of every shell since the first big race on the Hudson, July 2, 1901." For it was the big Red crew that won the first three races and 10 of the first 12 races. Since that time, the Cornell record has not been as high although in recent years they have been standing with Columbia as the best the East can offer against the double western threat of Washington and California...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KNOWING'S BIGGEST Thrill, "They're Off" at Poughkeepsie | 5/22/1935 | See Source »

Thus did potent Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. show that its new "Lifeguard Tube" had beaten the No. 1 bugaboo of U. S. motorists-the danger of loss of control following a blowout at high speed. The new tube is really a double tube, one inside the other. The inside tube or "lung," made of two-ply fabric, floats free under normal riding conditions, has a single small vent through which air escapes slowly when a blowout bursts the outer tube. Thus, it converts the blow-out into a slow leak, allows the driver to continue a mile or more with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Blowout into Leak | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

Plautus, Torence, and Livy are highly recommended as interesting studies in Latin B, while Greek B is the only other classical course in the good graces of the guide. History 1, that old bugaboo which drives many into electing Government 1, is surprisingly lauded, for "Dominating the course is Professor Merriman, who from the fall of Rome to the peace of Versailles sees that the leading facts, figures, and events are portrayed with coherence and continuity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Bewildered Prayers" | 9/21/1934 | See Source »

Plautus, Terence, and Livy are highly recommended as interesting studies in Latin B, while Greek B is the only other classical course in the good graces of the guide. History 1, that old bugaboo which drives many into electing Government 1, is surprisingly lauded, for "Dominating the course is Professor Merriman, who from the fall of Rome to the peace of Versailles sees that the leading facts, figures, and events are portrayed with coherence and continuity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 9/20/1934 | See Source »

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