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Word: hobbyless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comes to all Navy men at 64, often as cruelly and as indiscriminately as Death, retirement last week beached the old Admiral. Hobbyless, Harry Yarnell settled down to read books on the Orient, twiddle his brown thumbs, watch the sailboats off Newport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Beached | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...Montreal's best. Richest man in Canada is Sir Herbert Samuel Holt, testy, 81-year-old Chairman of the Royal Bank of Canada. An Irishman from Dublin, he got his start in Canadian Pacific Ry., made a fortune in Montreal utilities, another fortune in textiles. Hardboiled, hot tempered, hobbyless, he has been known to pick up an inquisitive newshawk, toss him bodily downstairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Miners' Mart | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

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