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Word: closets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cost $2,500.000, is 343 ft. long and has oil-burning engines which develop 6,000 h. p. It has the traditional piratical look of Morgan yachts -long, dark, heavy underneath; paler, suaver in the superstructure. Owner's quarters include a stateroom, office, bath, and big cedar closet. There are five staterooms for guests on the starboard side and a pantry, galley, and laundry to port. The Corsair IV is ten feet longer than the Orion, erstwhile "biggest in the world," built last year in Kiel for Julius Forstmann, New Jersey textile manufacturer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Launchings | 4/21/1930 | See Source »

...about six glasses deep. Beneath the bar is a serving shelf large enough to hold four dozen quart bottles. The bar itself is concave to admit the paunch of an old-time 'tender. When not in use the whole thing can be folded up, stowed away in a closet if, of course, the bottles have first been disposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Cheap Bar | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

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