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Word: peeks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curious reporter has ever had a peek at the Grand Council's list but best Rome gossip says Mussolini's successor is likely to be Signor Balbo, Governor of Libya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Theorist | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

Announced by Air Associates, Inc., for pilots who want more than a peek at the ground out of an open side window before landing in rain or ice, was a windshield wiper which is designed to: 1) keep ice off the glass, and 2) scrub it dry in the heaviest rainstorm. Trick of the device is a rubber, motor-driven blade, pivoted on an axle through the windshield. It revolves so fast (2,500 r.p.m.) that it does not obstruct vision, scrubs glass many times faster than a slow-moving automobile wiper. To help it rub away ice, a melting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Wiper | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...years ago the U. S. had its first peek at the book in an abridged form which reduced the 781 original ranting pages to a more succinct 297. This version sold some 25,000 copies. Seriously impaired by condensation, however, was the original's most important feature-its faithful prophecy of Hitler's subsequent aggressive foreign policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Best Seller | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...reporter followed him to the Hotel Station where Peek's Bad Boy was cating with unidentified friends. "Mr. Farley--what are you going to do in Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FARLEY ATTENDS SEMINAR IN UNFINISHED LITTAUER CENTER | 1/17/1939 | See Source »

Editor Wythe Williams of Connecticut's Greenwich Time wrote that a Berlin tipster had taken "a peek through the key-hole or a glance through the transom of the Goebbels sickroom," had seen the Little Doctor bundled in thick bandages- not the usual treatment for intestinal influenza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Doctor's Medicine | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

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