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Word: roebuck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hangs from the ceiling, almost low enough for the grown visitor to touch its spats. Nearby sits the Chrysler Airflow -- not, alas, the classic 1934 model with the "waterfall" radiator, but still modernity on wheels, squinty windshield, fairings and all. Between them are such icons as the 1936 Sears-Roebuck Waterwitch outboard, offering its owner some whiff of the thrill associated with Henry Dreyfuss's bullet-nosed locomotives or Norman Bel Geddes' flying wings. Your trousers shorten as you look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Back to the Lost Future | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

...School has sponsored similar programs for the last 14 years. Grants from the House Administration Committee, the IOP, the Tisch Family Foundation and the Sears Roebuck Foundation will fund the session, Farnsworth said...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, | Title: KSG Hosts Orientation for Congressional Frosh | 12/9/1986 | See Source »

...farmers are switching over to alligators. They get their stock from the refuge there, which will hatch 9,000 eggs in the next few months. The refuge has a waiting list with 40 names on it. "Gator stock is not exactly something you can just order up from Sears, Roebuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Louisiana: Gone Shrimping | 10/13/1986 | See Source »

...coming in from the west. On the porch sat Jack Owens, a black man with startling blue eyes, and with him was a friend, Ira Hudson, who volunteered, "I'm doing fine for a 75-year-old pap." Owens got out his twelve string Silvertone guitar from Sears, Roebuck, and you could see dust buildup on all the lower frets that a bluesman never fingers. Spires accepted an A harp from Owens, removed a wooden kitchen match from his mouth and began to blow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Mississippi: Visiting Around | 6/9/1986 | See Source »

...proposed shopping and entertainment center would occupy a refurbished and expanded Sears, Roebuck & Co. building on Massachusetts Avenue...

Author: By Gawain Kripke, | Title: New Project Rapped At Council Hearing | 4/15/1986 | See Source »

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