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Word: handfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this is very fine until we ask why the door had to be closed by hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 19, 1939 | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...Because the U. S. Navy's experiments with mechanically operated doors seemed to show that they are complicated and apt to jam, all doors for personnel in Navy ships are worked by hand. The U.S.S. Washington, which will cost $66,000,000 when completed, will be no exception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 19, 1939 | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...flowing stock, received them at his Fair, where they were tootled around in a trackless motor train. Their own Empire's exhibits, including a copy of the Magna Charta, were their chief stops, being formal reasons for their U. S. visit. Artist Frank E. Beresford was on hand with sketch pad to record the event. Columbia University got a crack at them on their way to Hyde Park: Dr. Nicholas Murray ("Miraculous") Butler received them at the foot of the library steps, showed them the King's College charter issued by George II in 1754. Ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Here Come the British | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Their real hostess at Hyde Park was, of course, the President's mother, which made it all the more like home and Queen Mother Mary. Mother Roosevelt took a strong fancy to George, patted his arm as well as Elizabeth's hand when she said good-by at the Hyde Park station. When the Roosevelts repay the visit, as they almost certainly will at some time, she may well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Here Come the British | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...best-selling Fashion Is Spinach, Elizabeth Hawes, petite, snip-witted, 36-year-old Manhattan dress designer, showed a chic hand with the muckrake as well as a sound knowledge of women's clothes. This time she plays Joan of Arc to clothesbound men. Few years ago Elizabeth Hawes discovered that clothes make the man miserable. She designed some collarless, tieless, pressless, lightweight, colorful models. Men nudged, pointed, but did not buy. In Men Can Take It, Miss Hawes relates with bright disgust what was wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stripped | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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