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Word: sew (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood pranksters started a streetcar token chain to promote streetcar travel and a button chain ("In return you will receive 15,625 buttons for your wife to sew on your clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chain Fever (Cont'd) | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

Dick Johnson, who has hurled the javelin 210 feet at least once this year, will take a shot at the dual meet record of 187 feet 9 inches, made in 1924, while Norm Cahners and Mac Millard will probably sew up the hammer and discus Harvard will be weak, however, in attempts for seconds and thirds in these three events...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON TRACK TEAM FAVORED OVER TIGERS | 5/2/1935 | See Source »

...make things as difficult as possible for Captain Eden to sew up anything against Germany with Soviet Foreign Minister Litvinoff, an $80,000,000 private credit was abruptly extended by Germany to Russia this week three days before the Great Orator hurled his tirade against Bolshevism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Berlin Mission | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

...other picture, "Servants Entrance" plays in Sweden, where a girl with a conscience decides to abandon her wardrobe and learn how to cook, sew, and other things. She comes back home with a chauffeur on her mind and it does not surprise the audience that the chauffeur is also a budding engineer and his father-in-law the largest motor manufacturer in Sweden. Janet Gaynor and Lew Ayres take one and a half fairly amusing hours to make the "big decision...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/7/1934 | See Source »

Princeton still rates as the collegiate style center, with Harvard low water mark. "They're crazy up there," a department store man grumbled. "They even cut holes in their elbows and sew on leather patches." Life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Depression | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

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