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Word: secondhand (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many practical and theoretical difficulties remain before the process is perfected. Charles Birch-Field does not expect to solve the problems in his studio with his ancient, secondhand projector and crude equipment. But someone, somewhere, probably will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chromatic Aberration | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

Furniture of Dartmouth students who are drafted will be bought by the College, it was announced in Hanover, Monday. This action was made necessary by the lack of secondhand furniture stores near the College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Offers to Buy Student Furniture | 12/10/1942 | See Source »

...sets in any one picture. To movie directors who once thought nothing of spending $300,000 for stages and costumes in a single musicomedy, this is the end of the line. But the prop boys went to work, are now using such non-Hollywood items as retouched scenery, secondhand lumber, repaired costumes-even unkinked used nails. Besides this WPB has cut film use by 10% to 24%, threatens a still bigger cut next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: Prosperity Row | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

...less regal but more productive. She uses a ramshackle, ghost-town U.S. post office as headquarters, tears between her three mountain mines in a secondhand $55 down-payment Ford, wears dirty trousers and wildly striped, tight-fitting sweaters (see cut), bosses her 45 employes like a regular miner. She also produces chrome ore. Her Joe River mine turns out 20 tons every day. Last week she opened her Ladd mine, put more steam behind construction at the McGuffy mine. Thus her production soon will be much higher, although she has already sold 3,200 tons to the Government-20% more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MINING: Chrome Queen Moroney | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

...Secondhand Scenery. This delightful picture may not have a Hollywood happyending. Last week the film colony had two big dolors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: Prosperity Row | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

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