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Word: roome (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the snow is off the ground, Pratt & Whitney expects to have its factory-on-a-silver-platter turning out as many high-powered motors as are now being crated in the loading room of its old plant, sees no trouble ahead in filling the requirements of the U. S. Army and Navy, plus still other orders from overseas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Silver Platter | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...that situation the discovery that there was room for thirty more students from Harvard, coupled with the information that these men must wait several months before they can start their training, and it becomes plain that the course is pretty well bogged up. The instruction will have to be telescoped during the second half of they year, which may put considerable strain on the students regular curriculum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FLYING LOW | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Once there was a day when Vag wrote a letter to you each Christmas. This letter was inevitably the only nit of writing he did outside of school. Somehow, it never seemed a hardship--as was all other writing. It was scribbled rather carefully in pencil--on the dining room table just after the supper dishes had been cleared away. About this time of year, it was, too. Annually, it must have caused Mr. Farley's postal predecessor some trouble. The address was a little vague. Just North Pole. But it got through, You always knew what to bring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...keys. Christmas is upon him--and only ties, handkerchiefs, gloves, and such stuff in prospect. Where are the days when Vag could tingle with the expectation of an electric train? Erector sets--where are they? What has become of the Lightning Glider that used to nestle under the living room tree? They were thing worth getting up at six o'clock in the morning to go down and see! But now--well, Christmas is losing all its glamor. A tour of the toy departments of the department stores shows that you've not been standing still. Yours toys have been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

After two plenary sessions in the Winthrop Senior Common Room Friday morning and afternoon, three study groups, conducted by Edward Bernays. I. L. Child, and Rupert Emerson, associate professor of Government; discussed propaganda and education, propaganda and the individual, and propaganda...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THIRD CONFERENCE ENDS AFTER PROBE INTO PROPAGANDA | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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