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Word: pense (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oxford's companion volume to the anthology of English poetry, which ranges from the medieval-lyrics up through the poets of the turn of the century, is as adequately and carefully selected as a collection with its purpose should be. No undue attention is paid to the Romantics, who for...

Author: By A. C. B., | Title: The Bookshelf | 10/22/1935 | See Source »

The carnauba palm is "the tree of life" to native Brazilians, who use its wood for cattle pens, its leaves to thatch huts, its fibre for baskets and fishing nets. Industrially, carnauba wax is used mainly in floor, shoe and auto polishes, has no substitute.* After the rainy season it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Wax Hunt | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

W. A. Sheaffer Pen Co. boasts the largest dollar sales of any pen manufacturer in the U. S. When it was founded in a Fort Madison, Iowa jeweler's shop in 1913, most fountain pens clogged, scratched, leaked or had to be filled with a medicine dropper. Jeweler Walter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Pen Man | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

Soon money began to pour into Walter Sheaffer's ink-stained hands. His crowning achievement was an $8.75 Lifetime pen, introduced in 1921. It was the first standard high-priced fountain pen launched on what had always been a low-priced market. Next Walter Sheaffer streamlined his pens. Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Pen Man | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

With the faint scratching of gold pens in Paris last week an era closed-the era of Tiger Clemenceau who tried to throw a cordon sanitaire around Russia and starve the Bolsheviks out as one would exterminate lice. Even last week deep French distrust of the Red masters of Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Bear & Cock | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

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