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Word: handsful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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In far-off Oslo, New York's ham-handed Representative Ham Fish, four Senators and 24 Representatives were last week spending $10,000 in the only big Congressional junket of the year, the annual trip to the meeting of the Interparliamentary Union. Still happily present in Mr. Fish'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Sideshows | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Even the few anecdotes about this thoroughly professional little man take on some of their subject's small, neat dignity. Last year, visiting a Chasseurs' encampment on a mountain plateau, he shook hands with familiar oldtimers and then was taken to the picket line to see some of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Good Grey General | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Spain, comfortably distant from the sound of guns, profited enormously from high prices and increased production of grain, olive oil, beet sugar. Shipping companies made killings. But by strengthening the industrial and financial power of the Basques and the Catalans, who were separatist in their politics, this war prosperity helped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Background For War: The Neutrals | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

> A muff for cornets and trombones, to fit over the keys, keep outdoor musicians' hands warm in winter. Also an electrically heated steering wheel to warm motorists' hands.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Path of Progress | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Stan Shaw is a skinny, jumpy, 31-year-old ex-teacher of psychology and ex-orchestra leader from Kansas City. He and his aides never hand records back & forth, they throw them. With a great play at keeping everything Grade A on the Milkman's Matinee, Assistant John Flora...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Milkman Stan | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

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