Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...April 19 issue of TIME with being the "first in the trade to adopt an 'all-wool' policy (1900)" and "first with the camel's hair coat (1912)" is not, apparently very well-founded in the history of the ready-made clothing business...
Four M.I.T. students also appeared in the same court. Donald Cole of Belmont was sentenced to a total of four months in the house of correction and fined $10. The $10 charge was made for malicious destruction of a policeman's coat at the Technology Riot...
...frequently been commented upon as depressing, but such a remark merely shows that the observer has failed to walk inside. Blank, dingy corridors and stairway walls enlivened by heating pipes of dubious aesthetic value, and by the silhouettes of James Warren Sever and his wife Elizabeth. A cheery coat of paint would add immeasurably to the attractiveness of the University's largest classroom building...
...open the rearranged, remodeled National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, world's greatest collection of marine paintings, ship models, instruments and relics, greatly enlarged by munificent gifts from Sir James Caird, shipowner and meat importer, and from Queen Mary. King George last week was able to inspect the coat in which Nelson died; the first chronometer; Sir Francis Drake's astrolabe; two logbooks belonging to Captain James Cook...
Another flurry was caused by word from impressionable young reporters in Washington that General Pershing, military representative, would attend the Coronation in a gaudy $600 uniform of his own designing, consisting of an ostrich-plumed "fore & aft" hat, a frock coat embroidered with oak leaves, epaulets, brass buttons and a buff silk sash. Infuriated, General Pershing stomped up the gangway of the President Harding without ever explaining clearly to reporters that his Coronation costume was no flight of fancy but the regulation full-dress uniform of a General in the U. S. Army. Grinned Admiral Hugh Rodman, naval representative...