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Word: fats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Women only-Please walk the aisles quietly, without accenting your hard heels; if you are not too fat, tiptoe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: MANNERS IN CHURCH | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...small radio receiver. When he landed at Roosevelt Field, N. Y. next day, tired and chilled, he had set a new transcontinental light-plane record: 23 hours and 26 minutes, an average of 110 m.p.h. Cost of the trip, exclusive of sandwiches, coffee and depreciation: $27.15. Result: a fat sheaf of inquiries from pilots, to some of whom Monocoupe hopes to sell airplanes. Said satisfied Mr. Bunch: "I made the flight for my own satisfaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Busy Bunch | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...commentary as Rowlandson's The Arch Duchess Marie Louise going to have her Nap (showing the future Empress of France in bed with Napoleon), Satirist Carle Vernet was able to reply with an incomparably more subtle study called Les Anglais a Paris, three figures of a girl, a fat boy, and a military popinjay which still contain nearly all the French have to say about the English character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Low's Forebears | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...sort of honored ward of the Mexican Government, fat, fearless Diego Rivera still figures in many a hot political controversy. But whatever their politics, art lovers agree that Rivera is the foremost muralist of his time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rivera's Life | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Burly, six-foot Henry Ruthvin Smith is one postman who does not go walking on his holidays. After 16 years of lugging a fat mailbag over a regular residential route in Columbia, S. C., even the walking he had to do for the Post Office Department got to be too much. But while other postmen with the same problem met it by foot baths or retirement, Mailman Smith used his head. Last week, with the blessing of the Postmaster General, he was awheel in one of the strangest contraptions that ever carried Uncle Sam's post. Footsore grey-coats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Scoot Business | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

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