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Word: compartmentized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aboard the train which carried the body of Joseph T. Robinson back to his native Arkansas were, besides the Senator's family and friends, 38 Senators, 23 Representatives, Postmaster General Jim Farley, Assistant Attorney General Joe Keenan, Undersecretary of the Interior Charles West. It would not be just to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Caucus on Wheels | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

There was trouble at Rajpore, an army post on the Afghan border, when the widowed Mrs. William (June Lang) and her daughter Priscilla (Shirley Temple) got there. Tribal Chief Khoda Khan (Cesar Romero) had been arrested smuggling arms through the pass, and the hill people were coming down to get...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 19, 1937 | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

¶ A sandwich bag with a special compartment in the bottom for salt & pepper.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Path of Progress: Jun. 28, 1937 | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

A salesman once fell into conversation with a goateed little fellow traveler in a smoking compartment, finally asked: "What do you do? My line is skirts." Replied President William Allan Neilson of Smith College: ''That's my line too."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Neilson's 20th | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

An inconvenience in trains is the long lurching walk through three or four Pullmans to the diner only to find all the tables taken and a line of people waiting. Last November the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy installed several telephones in one of the streamlined Zephyrs so passengers might telephone the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Telephoning in Transit | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

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