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Word: businesswomen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feel superior to Wellesley's rivals (as rivals feel superior to Wellesley). According to the girls, Radcliffe tends toward "the creepy, arty bookworm." Smith, some think, "makes big with the party type of girls." They don't care very much about Vassar, either: "Vassar makes girls into businesswomen." Wellesleyites prefer to think of themselves as "just well-rounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Just Well Rounded | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...Majesty Queen Mary, 81, was still getting around well enough to inspect some converted London flats being occupied by lower-income businesswomen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: No Place Like Home | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...academically interested in all this, for Arrowhead is financed largely with cinema money. Chief Stockholders Schenck and Paley sold $1,000,000 of the corporation debentures, the 10,000 shares of common stock to Hollywoodians. Among the stockholders are Constance Bennett (one of the smartest of cinema's businesswomen), Claudette Colbert, Darryl Zanuck, Al Jolson, Paley & friends are planning to sell $500,000 more of common stock issue to finish the job of making Arrowhead a glittering combination of Carlsbad and Sun Valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: Toothpicks and Swizzlesticks | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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