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Word: skirtsful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, in a novel called Seek-No-Further, Author Constance Robertson told the story of Temple Commune in Jericho Centre, N. Y. The Temple was a group of 65 farmers who worked hard all day and in the evening held canning bees and seancés. Its women wore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Table-Rapping Utopia | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

Thousands of Sokols in their flashing uniforms-shirts of Garibaldi red, grey Czech jackets slung from their left shoulders, little round red caps with falcon feathers-last week poured into Prague's big, bustling Masaryk and Wilson (named after Woodrow Wilson) railway stations, stomped out to the mammoth Masaryk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Optimist | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

New and proud possessors of an office and meeting place in P.B.H., given through the generosity of Mrs. Robert R. Ames, the Student Council has for the third year continued its growth toward more and more efficacy and has this year so tightened its understanding of its primary functions that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COUNCIL '37 TO COUNCIL '38--TO HARVARD | 5/26/1938 | See Source »

University of Chicago women are oftener cited for their brains than for their beauty. The undergraduate magazine Pulse complained recently that "there hasn't been a beautiful woman on the Midway since Little Egypt reared her skirts in 1893." At this admission Northwestern University students guffawed. Aroused Chicagoans decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Chicago's Prettiest | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

In Washington last week, chief endeavor of the 3,001 delegates to the Continental Congress seemed to be to see who could carry the most flowers. One Washington florist's business increased 300% during their stay. Principal agendum at the Congress was rostrum-climbing. To help them avoid tripping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Continental Congress | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

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