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Word: shirts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roommate borrowed my last shirt today, and I haven't yet discovered the name of the laundry with whom I signed a contract. Gosh, I've only worn two shirts since I got to Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/8/1937 | See Source »

Late tonight my roommate still had my shirt on. I finally asked him what we should call the maid, and he said: "Biddie." Tomorrow I must do some research to see if this is a peculiar New England appellation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/8/1937 | See Source »

Dean Sperry, sporting the familiar crimson the emblazoned against a white shirt, rose to address the gathering with a few remarks. Whereas President Conant did not attempt to define a "liberal education," Dean Sperry borrowed from William James what he thinks should be derived from a college education, "The object of a college education is to enable you to recognize a real man when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant, Sperry, Neilson in Role of Hosts As Class of 1941 Gets Official Welcome | 9/25/1937 | See Source »

...Shirt-Sleeve Interview. Rare pleasure of twelve favored foreign correspondents was a chatty interview with Herr Hitler. Informally meeting them in the room of Frederick Barbarossa in the 12th Century castle dominating old Nürnberg, Der Führer answered queries sometimes freely, sometimes directly, sometimes evasively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: A Million Heils | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

Yonai. Smack next to the Prime Minister of Japan on such dress-shirt occasions as the formal opening of Parliament, sit the Minister of the Navy and the Minister of War. Other Cabinet officers form no more than a decorative background of gold lace. Since last February Japan's Navy Minister has been Admiral Mitsuniasa Yonai, or more formally Yoniuchi-a descendant of the samurai, member of the blue-blooded Satsuma clan and grandson of the extremely wealthy Baron Kentaro Okuma, developer of the South Manchuria Railway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Sailors Ashore | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

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