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Word: liverymen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Michigan's Mackinac Island, the Lake Huron resort where automobiles are barred, was sprayed from stem to stern with DDT. The results were sensational: for the first time in memory, liverymen removed the summertime fly nets from their horses. Residents burned their flytraps in a big public bonfire celebrating the extinction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: War on Insects | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

Horses. At Chicago's public auction of saddle horses fortnight ago, city farmers and suburbanites outbid horse dealers and liverymen to buy 100 horses at an average of $165 each-$35 over last year's price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Patterns | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...consists of people of all classes, butchers and baronets, clerks and cooks, lawyers and liverymen. "I used to sell gramophone records," volunteered a fire-truck driver whom the Nazis have kept so busy that he has grown a beard for lack of time to shave. "Funny how a beard gives you a hand with the girls," he added. "I've a good mind to keep it as a permanent fixture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: They Are a Miracle | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

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