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Word: modelings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...move ahead fast; if they draw "Canterbury," they are "sent into exile." As a promotion stunt Miss Davis recently sent a box of Love to the Archbishop of Canterbury. This week, according to a columnist in London's Daily Express, she got his answering letter. "It was a model of frigidity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Games | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...Brooklyn Children's Museum, youngsters learn about the earth, minerals, birds, animals, plants, insects, geography, history. They observe families of mice, model in clay, peer through microscopes, take apart models of flowers under the supervision of adult "docents.''* Patrons may borrow exhibits to take home. Only rule is that they must handle them with clean hands. The museum provides soap and water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Laboratories of Patriotism | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

TIME seems always in the market for new words so here's one my little niece coined. She was excited about a man on the street trying to crank an old-model car. In describing it to her Grandpa she said, "It was just a 'jalopidated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 16, 1939 | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...reviewers had not tired of telling readers to watch Alec. Last week, with his thirty-first book, Going Their Own Ways (Farrar & Rinehart $2.50), 40-year-old Alec Waugh was i promising writer still. But it had long been obvious that he would never be as good as his model, John Galsworthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Modern Marriage | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...story-book adventures of the pioneers who crossed the North American prairie wastes in their Conestaga wagons influenced David Hume '40 into priming up his own prairie schooner, a model A flivver of uncertain vintage, for a Christmas holiday jaunt through Canada...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUNIOR RUINS FORD AFTER USING SNOWBANK AS A BEAKE | 1/12/1939 | See Source »

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