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Word: skyhigh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1936-1936
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...enough for Harvard merely to protest that it knows no stamp and has produced no type. The myth must be blown skyhigh, like the rumor of the iron in raisons or the alleged intimacy between Camels and Mrs. Cabot's throat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAW YOUR OWN HARVARD MAN | 9/25/1936 | See Source »

Reflecting the trial-&-error nature of their profession, doctors last week praised sky-high one new drug, damned another which until lately they had praised skyhigh, found a new use for a third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Trial & Error | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

Closer to home were graver distractions. Butter prices were skyhigh. New Yorkers at Buffalo, where butter was selling at 37? per Ib., were crossing to Fort Erie, Ont., buying the stuff for 24? per Ib. in spite of a vigilant campaign by U. S. customs agents against butter-legging. High butter prices did not indicate prosperity for Bossy's boss. On the contrary, drought has parched pastures of New York's great Mohawk Valley, sent feed prices up as much as 70%. Hard as it might be on city folks, it looked as if the dairyman would have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Hold Your Milk! | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

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