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Word: rocked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...done. But ordinary visitors will not be allowed to scuff across the room's Savonnerie carpet, made for Louis XIV, or sit in its superbly upholstered chairs. From behind ropes the public will view these and the Sevres porcelain, the Boucher tapestries, the rich Louis XVI paneling, the rock-crystal chandeliers, the china figures so delicate that dust is not wiped off them but whiffed away by a gently pumped bellows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Brother-in-Law | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...bankrupt Rock Island, Missouri Pacific, St. Louis-San Francisco, to the prosperous Union Pacific, Burlington, U. S. winter wheat adds up to a substantial portion of summer revenue. Largest of the winter wheat carriers is the Santa Fe. Wall Street Journal dug up some interesting figures on Santa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Dollar Wheat | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Steelmaster Ernest Tener Weir, chairman of National Steel, smartest little steelman in the U. S.; sleek, youngish Edgar Monsanto Queeny of Monsanto Chemical, whose dignified diversion is Republican politics (finance committee) in Democratic Missouri; scholarly Henning Webb Prentis Jr., president of Armstrong Cork, No. 1 U. S. linoleum producer; rock-ribbed John Howard Pew, president of Sun Oil Co., financial angel of the Republican Party in Pennsylvania; long-nosed Lammot du Pont, beardless patriarch of the U. S.'s most famed family industry; Du Pont-in-law Donaldson Brown, vice chairman, financial and labor policy man of General Motors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: In Congress Assembled | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...twenty stories by a young writer who started with "Bury the Dead" and has continued to turn out work of startling excellence. . . Ludwig Bemelman's "Small Beer" has ten sketches, dealing chiefly with Germany and Austria, pre- and post-Hitler. Well illustrated by the author. . . . "The Web and the Rock" is almost exclusively for Thomas Wolfe partisans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Bookshelf | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

Love triumphed over heretofore implacable Stillman medicos yesterday morning when despite a septic throat Frederick R. Suits IL was permitted to slip out for an hour to marry Miss Barbara Neville Bossinger of Little Rock, Arkansas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SICK STILLMAN STUDENT GETS HOUR'S LEAVE FOR MARRIAGE | 12/9/1939 | See Source »

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