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Word: sizinges (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week the Department of Agriculture and the WPA in New Jersey set about getting women's figures taped; they started a WPA project to measure 100,000 women. Later this research will be continued in five other States. Each subject-matron, maid, scrubwoman, show girl-will be taped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: No Boondoggling | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

For 72 hours the five men hung lashed to the rigging, scanning the horizon. Then, early on October 1 they spied a vessel steering southwest through the high running sea. Closer and closer it came, finally hove to less than a mile off. Frantic, the wrecked sailors waved their jackets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Code of the Sea | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Sizing up the situation. Film Daily's Chester B. Bahn put his finger on the real danger of Chicago's proposed action, hinted that the industry ought to purge itself lest "a municipality . . . tomorrow . . . may similarly attack the alternative feature & shorts program, and the day after by legislation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Double Trouble | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

Hens. Since everyone considers himself an expert in sizing up a town, and every Bill Smith is sure his own town is the greatest, Edward Lee Thorndike last week was well aware that at 63 he was stepping into the controversy of his life. He is used to controversy by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Big Chief's GG | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

Yet despite the fact that the Freshman who wrote the letter missed the boat as far as sizing up the point of the meeting, it does appear that his feelings were hurt--and perhaps others felt the same way--by what they thought was a breach of decorum, or at...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON GOOD CLEAN FUN | 10/2/1937 | See Source »

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