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Word: clothing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gentleman who symbolizes the G. O. P. had to go up and hide away the full dinner pail. He worked it until he had it all worn out and when this campaign opened up he quietly went up into the attic and had a little piece of chamois cloth and was getting ready to polish it all up and see if he could not pass it around again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Smithisms | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

Subtitle shown on many screens last week: MOST TERRIFYING SOUND IN THE WORLD RECORDED BY FOX MOVIETONE NEWS. Pictures showed a lion roaring. Asked critics, "Was it made by a pail covered with cowhide sliding on rosined cloth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Records | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

Said Seer David: "Michael is not dead. I have seen him twice, wandering about the castle with his head tied up in a piece of cloth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Royal Bestowal | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...experiment, he faces totally different problems, different programs. He plans to buy "a few selected mills" (at the present extraordinarily low rates) to turn out unfinished cloth. He will add finishing plants to bleach, dye and print the cotton, then sell the product himself through his own converters, including Cohn-Hall-Marx. United Merchants & Manufacturers, Inc.* will then control the entire textile process, from the purchase of raw materials to the sale of curtains and draperies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Textile Doctor | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...switching world commerce around by his inventions of synthetics for natural products, swelled last week when he read the news bulletin just published by the National Geographic Society. That bulletin was specific. From coal tar,* air-nitrogen, cotton, corn & wood, chemists have been making things from fertilizers to rayon cloth, from paint to pearls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chemists & Commerce | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

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