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Word: frozen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...production in quantity, National Chip Steak Co. has improved on Butcher Dubil's original process. "Chips" are made from rounds and loins, which are first cleared by butchers of bones, sinews and fat, then packed into loaves in metal containers which are quick-frozen, at 15° below zero. After 24 hours of sub-zero freezing they are tempered at 30°, then thin-sliced and packed into six-layer steaks (a super-steak can be made by stacking two such steaks) and sold in two sizes, six-inch ovals for household use, four-and-a-half-inch ovals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Butcher's Luck | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...artillery, learned to like gunnery, never learned to like army discipline. While he was in training at Camp Knox, Ky., he and Edith Wilk, onetime town librarian of Elwood, were married. Held up by a blizzard, Lieutenant Willkie was two days late for the wedding, turned up with a frozen, bedraggled bridal bouquet. Sweet-faced Edith Wilk carried it to the altar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Indiana Advocate | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Kangerdlugssuatsiaq. Paul-Emile Victor looks like a young man about Paris. He is an outstanding French ethnographer who has the frozen field of Eskimo doings pretty much to himself. He speaks fluently their polysyllabic language which for most people is as tough as a piece of walrus gristle. At Kangerdlugssuatsiaq, he lived for six months as a member of the Eskimo community, records his observations of life in a crowded igloo in a 349-page book, whose footnotes and appendices are often more exciting than the rather disjointed text...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Travelogue | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...Inducing a 5-day frozen slumber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Peeks. At its worst, the Fair's nudity is so much peeping tommyrot. Unalluring are the Arctic Girls, frozen inside cakes of ice. Twittering and skipping about with bows & arrows, the droopy Amazons provide a mere comic-strip-tease. NTG's frightened-looking Sun Worshippers make customers the victims of a skin game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: As You Enter | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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