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Word: compartmentized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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I came to Taormina from Syracuse in the same compartment with a Sicilian family consisting of the father with a long mustache, the mother holding a baby, and a daughter looking like a brunette version of Greta Garbo and eating salami. My time was spent between looking for Mt. Etna...

Author: By Christophor Jonus, | Title: Tbe Oxford Letter | 5/8/1937 | See Source »

The cause of the disaster remains in doubt. Smoking was permitted in an asbestos lined smoking room, at the door of which a steward always stood to watch outgoing passengers. But the fire apparently started in the stern, indicating the possibility of a short circuit. Since the ship only contained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Hindenberg Zeppelin' Burns At Lakehurst; Fear 36 Dead | 5/7/1937 | See Source »

For train travelers who dislike horizontal undressing in a berth but cannot afford a drawing room or compartment, Pullman Co. last week had an announcement. Now abuilding, in new equipment for the New York Central's 20th Century Limited, the Pennsylvania's Broadway Limited, the North Western, Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Roomette | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

With the pop eyes of ignorance most of the testers looked on the great pyx*-, an ancient chest three feet square, used according to records for 98 years, and no one knows how much longer. Ceremonially its great padlocks were removed, its lid thrown back, its twelve inner compartments, one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Small Change | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

First U. S. landplane large enough to give real scope to interior designers is the Douglas DC-3. Last summer American Airlines began flying the first of these superb new planes in two models-21-passenger day coaches and sleepers with 14 berths plus a compartment (TIME, Sept. 28). This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Skylounges | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

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