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Word: francises (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a sophisticated Manhattan housewife last week, tardily opening her October bills, blinked as she scanned her laundry statement. Instead of the familiar Croydon Trousseau Laundry, the billhead read: Shields-Wood Service. Proprietors: Francis X. Shields, Sidney B. Wood Jr.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rackets and Washtubs | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

The billhead meant what it said. Francis X. Shields and Sidney B. Wood, the young tennists whose teamwork was the talk of two continents in 1931 when they reached the semi-finals of the U. S. and Wimbledon Doubles Championships, had teamed up again, in the laundry business.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rackets and Washtubs | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Drums Along the Mohawk (20th Century-Fox) continues Producer Darryl Francis Zanuck's probings into the rise of U. S. civilization as exemplified by In Old Chicago, Young Mr. Lincoln. The current example is notable chiefly for its running time (one hour and 43 minutes), a non-stop foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 20, 1939 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

At a short ceremony, John L. Lowes, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, will give an informal address, and immediately afterwards a tea will be held for the Friends of Widener Library, an organization made up of interested graduates and undergraduates of the college.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW EXHIBIT CENTER TO OPEN IN WIDENER | 11/17/1939 | See Source »

We are also led to fear that the whole protest meeting was a publicity stunt, in view of the anonymous offer of a hall for Browder to the John Reed Society. Their refusal to consider the University's side of the question, their railroading of their resolution, their complete denial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 11/16/1939 | See Source »

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