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Word: granded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, Gimbels was doing a good business in grand pianos and $4,000 mink coats. Cartier was having no trouble selling superexpensive jewelry. Example: a three-strand diamond necklace with matching earrings for $29,000. Capehart de luxe record players were in demand at $1,595. Many a shopper took expensive Lionel electric trains ($22.50 to $75) in preference to cheaper sets. Everywhere, luxury items vanished rapidly from store counters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: Once a Year | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...time for thinking after the autumn madness and before the mid-winter grand. Vag stopped fairly on the lift overing of show and thought of what the newspapers called his postwar readjustment. It had been made. Now he could sit calmly in his armchair and spend a straight afternoon reading a novel or textbook with a lot loss of the old restlessness. He was in the college life for what it was worth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 12/9/1947 | See Source »

...Atlanta's Wheat Street Baptist Church, Henry Wallace spoke to an unsegregated audience of 3,000 Negroes and whites. City officials refused to interfere. Said K.K.K. Grand Dragon Samuel Green: "We'll see them later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Freedom & Bowlegs | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...Course. In Grand Rapids, Jay A. Posthumus ran a funeral parlor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 1, 1947 | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...disturbing but kindly teacher, Agnostic Bode attracted such big classes that only the chapel would hold them. There, his long figure draped over the lectern, he would lecture with inflammatory enthusiasm. Sometimes, on fire himself, he would edge off the platform onto the top of an adjoining grand piano, to get more persuasively close to his hearers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rebel | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

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