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Word: compartmentized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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MEMPHIS, Tenn.--An Eastern Airlines pilot brought his big transport plane down safely in a freshly plowed field 20 miles east of here today while flames roared in the baggage compartment and smoke filled the cabin where seven passengers were. The passengers and a crew of three escaped uninjured.

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 10/26/1939 | See Source »

Francis David Langhorne Astor, 27, son of Virginia-born Lady Nancy Astor. Already serving were sons Michael, William Waldorf, John Jacob. Said Lady Astor (whose gas mask contains a compartment for lipstick and compact): "I know what the horrors of war are, for I went through the last one when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Names | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

A smoker's pipe with a tobacco storage compartment attached.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Path of Progress: Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Dr. Schwab's laboratory at the Massachusetts General Hospital is filled with electrical medical, and photographic apparatus. He has mares of long cable to carry brain waves from room to room. The patient is isolated and insulated in a compartment sorrounded by wire screens to keep out electrical and other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Medical School Research Man Devises Brain-Wave Machine for Studying Fits | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Crash experts of CAA's Air Safety Board attributed Braniff's crash to the left engine's throwing a cylinder. As Pilot Claude Seaton turned back to the field the disintegrating motor apparently ripped open its cowling, forming such a centre of head resistance that the ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Rueful Receiver | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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