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Word: furse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wealthy Britons seemed to be splurging last week on Christmas furs and jewels, "partly as investments," shopkeepers thought.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Christmas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

A tall-story teller in conversation, Consul Reinhardt used to have breathless U. S. socialites bug-eyed as he described his escape from a Bolshevik prison. Jailed while assisting prisoners during the Russian Revolution, Consul Reinhardt day by day watched Chinese guards lead away some of his companions to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Literary Consul | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

To Shanghai from Japan flew Quentin Roosevelt, 19, grandson of the late President, to take off for a one-man expedition into Yunnan Province. Sophomore Roosevelt, on leave of absence from Harvard, expects to find rare manuscripts, skulls, golden monkey furs, hopes his plunder will be considered research work, enabling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 17, 1939 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

The other night at a Count Basic dance, a rather merry young lady in black skunk furs, proceeded to climb onto the band stand, push tenor man Bud Tate out of his chair, sit down and clap her hands while cooing benevolently upon the audience. Aside from the fact that...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 3/31/1939 | See Source »

By & large, boycotting has been ineffective against producer goods such as German chemicals, iron pipes, tools, wire, certain kinds of industrial machines. Results show most clearly in consumer goods like gloves, furs, toys. In Manhattan, with the biggest Jewish concentration in the U. S., Macy, Saks-Fifth Avenue, Gimbel Bros...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Give & Take | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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