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Word: seatful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commonwealth Avenue and suggested that Bernice, with whom the Vagabond was just becoming acquainted, take the helm--or one of them. There was a major reshuffling as Bernice disengaged herself from the heap of girlhood, hooked her heel in the Vagabond's cuff and catapulted into the front seat, to replace Mary who was already nosing down for a landing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/12/1938 | See Source »

Finishing college in three years, Whitney worked one year for Kidder, Peabody & Co., a Boston brokerage house. After joining the Potter, Choate, & Prentice Co. of New York, he purchased in 1912 a seat on the Exchange. Later he was with Cummings & Marckwald, which was changed in 1916 to the Richard Whitney Co. During the War he worked for the Food Administration in Washington. At the twenty-fifth reunion of his class he was acknowledged one of its most prominent members by being chosen one of the two speakers at the banquet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: While at Harvard Richard Whitney, Former Wall Street King, Was Popular, Declares Classmate | 3/12/1938 | See Source »

...pretty well taken care of by Chandler Hovey now, but Pete Goodwin has a chance and Pete Richards has been working overtime all winter in the tank, with an eye on this oar. The bow seat is wide open with at least six possibilities of almost equal ability. This is easily the most uncertain position in the boat. Dick Ninde probably leads here if anyone does but he is closely pursued by Dave Scull, Henry Locke and Sophomore Bayard Dillingham. Perhaps less likely are John Rowe and John Bremer also of last season's Freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/10/1938 | See Source »

...today, marks the realization of a fiendish scheme to please everyone. By going in just as the "University Hour" begins, the serious student who goes to be educated can enjoy an hour of transluxuriant entertainment and depart in peace. If he has paid more than a quarter for his seat, he can even get a refund...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/10/1938 | See Source »

...given new stock to as many of the original company's stockholders as he could find. This week he and his wife were the guests of Manhattan's Commodity Club, which paid their expenses from Texas to hear them describe their "rubber-tired hoe with a seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rubber-Tired Hoe | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

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