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Word: institutee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The snow cruiser is an automotive dreadnaught 55 ft. long, designed and built by Chicago's Armour Institute at a cost of $150,000. It has a machine shop and a photographic darkroom, can carry an airplane on its back. Rolling on four retractable, rubber-tired wheels ten feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dreadnaught Ditched | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Bohrod is a naive realist whose paintings are mostly of common scenes around Chicago. In greens, reds, blues that are raw but seldom harsh, he paints sleazy streets of ramshackle houses, old women haggling at a fruit stand, batting practice in the Cubs' ball park (where he once sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Optimistic Realist | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

For 115 years the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia (founder: Benjamin Franklin) has gone solidly about its business of promoting science and industry. To many a famed scientist, engineer, inventor have gone its awards for work that advanced their professions. Like other kudos-conferring bodies, the Institute has never tried to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Medalist | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Its new award: the Vermilye Medal, named for Donor William Moorhead Vermilye, vice president of Manhattan's National City Bank. The first recipient: Lewis Herold Brown, handsome (see cut) young (45) president of big Johns-Manville Corp. (building materials, etc.). Until the presentation ceremony two weeks hence, the Institute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Medalist | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Newest promotion of the National Sausage Casing Dealer's Association (heartily accepted by the Institute of American Meat Packers): the turkeyfurter, or hot turk. Its ingredients: one part smoked turkey, one part veal, one part pork, plus breadcrumbs, thyme, sage, an emulsion of turkey fat and broth, all stuffed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Hot Turk | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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