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Word: icebox (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advice constituting in the eyes of Western states just about the most brazen piece of Japanese nose-thumbing yet at international law. In Nanking the forehanded Soviet Ambassador, Comrade Dmitry Vasilievich Bogomolov and his Embassy staff at once retired into their new $12,000 concrete dugout, equipped with an icebox and kitchenette and supposed to be able to withstand even a direct hit by a 500-lb. bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: As Advertised | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

Lowest priced completely furnished trailer was the Indian Trailer Corporation's Papoose at $295. Sleeping four the 1,250-lb. two-wheeler has stove, heater, icebox and running water. Top price was $1,580 for the generator-equipped Martin EckO with electric refrigeration, ice cubes, shower, hot and cold running water. Refinements in some 1937 trailers include: chromium-plated bath tubs; porcelain vapor stoves; writing desks; radios; roomy wardrobes; fireplaces. But a trailer is still a trailer, confined by restrictions of various states to a maximum length of about 22 ft., width and height around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Trailer Economics | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...before and days afterwards. It makes Pop misplace his glasses just fifteen minutes before the first band swings past Lexcord Green; Sally must have her face washed twice as a double protection against dirt; and Ma thinks, as the car turns the corner, that she didn't close the icebox door. For the neighbors know how long all the bands between Framingham and Lowell have been eking practice sounds out of trumpets, drums, bass horns, and still worse horns. Uniforms have been brushed free of winter dust, and as they form a marching line, how spry are the limbs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/20/1937 | See Source »

From its obscure beginnings, when the only club was a shepherd's crook, to the present, when most experts and more nonexperts carry golf bags equipped with everything except an icebox, the history of golf has been partly the history of the elaboration of its implements. Famed Charles ("Chick") Evans, when he won the U. S. Open in 1916, carried only seven clubs. Last summer, Open Champion Tony Manero carried 19, Amateur Champion Johnny Fischer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 14 Clubs | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...continued his biting attack against war and fascism, is proud of his suburban house, his two sons, Peter, 10, and six-year-old Martin who expects to be a comic-strip artist (see cut), his little coupe, his U. S. clothes, proudest of all of his electric icebox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Young & Grosz | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

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