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Word: exhibitioner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Mr. George Lansbury [Leader of the Labor Party] opened at the Royal Horticultural Hall, Westminster, today, the Lightweight Cycling, Hiking and Camping Exhibition. . . . In his speech Mr. Lansbury declared that it would be a bad day for us when we ceased to use our limbs. It was a good thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bicycle Boom | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

Over the Exhibition the Guardian glowed: "The surprising bicycle 'boom' of the last 18 months is shown here in all its glory, from midget machines to luxurious tandems with no fewer than eight gears which can be changed with a flick of the wrist while the cyclists are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bicycle Boom | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

Surly Roman stonemasons spent the week in "dressing" with colossal fig leaves 70 nude statues of young men, each in an athletic attitude and all some 25 ft. tall. Pope Pius XI was said by Fascist officials to have suggested the fig leaves, since the 70 virile statues adorn the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Fitting Fig Leaves | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

Anna Mathilda McNeill, born in Wilmington, N. C. 128 years ago, was a very prim and formidable lady, proud of her relationship to the McNeills of Barra, the Fairfaxes of Virginia. She married a U. S. Army engineer, bore him four sons, went with him to Russia in 1843 to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Butterfly's Mummy | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

In Manhattan, the American Museum of Natural History horticultural exhibition showed a new vegetable, the topepo, cross between a tomato and a pepper, four inches in diameter, light yellow, uncookable, tasting like a mild pepper.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 14, 1932 | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

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