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Word: sleeked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wall Street Journal had a society editor, she would appreciate that company. There were tough, jut-jawed Steelmaster Ernest Tener Weir, chairman of National Steel, smartest little steelman in the U. S.; sleek, youngish Edgar Monsanto Queeny of Monsanto Chemical, whose dignified diversion is Republican politics (finance committee) in Democratic Missouri; scholarly Henning Webb Prentis Jr., president of Armstrong Cork, No. 1 U. S. linoleum producer; rock-ribbed John Howard Pew, president of Sun Oil Co., financial angel of the Republican Party in Pennsylvania; long-nosed Lammot du Pont, beardless patriarch of the U. S.'s most famed family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: In Congress Assembled | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Miss Smith boasts petite, rather than the usual robust, features, saying she is 5 feet 4 inches tall and only 112 pounds. Atop her sleek frame rests a golden blond head. Miss Coleman, who is a Sophomore at St. Mary's, failed to list measurements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two More Majorettes Sign Up in Crimson Competition | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

Skylark has the sleek look of good drawing-room comedy-a luxurious stage set, a pile of monogrammed wisecracks, a cynical bachelor, a sophisticated butler, a poison-breathing bitch. But Playwright Raphaelson does nothing with them: they add up to a formula instead of a good time. His most original idea has been to have his characters spend most of their waking hours on the telephone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...control it. If He did not take action in what we have seen at the present time, we would think He was indifferent." Dr. Frederick William Norwood, onetime pastor of London's City Temple, reproached the U. S.: "You are a little too big to cover yourself with sleek neutrality while we shed our blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Gott Sei Mit Uns | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...successful forced landing is one you can walk away from. In 1932 big Detroit Aircraft Corp. made a landing that was distinctly not successful. No investor aboard walked away with his pocketbook intact. One of Detroit Aircraft's subsidiaries was Lockheed Aircraft, absorbed in 1929. Although its sleek Vegas and Orions were the fastest commercial jobs in the air, Lockheed had to go into receivership. Grass grew around its two-acre plant at Burbank, Calif., and the factory had only one employe-a watchman who had started working for Brothers Alan and Malcolm Loughead (later changed to Lockheed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Net & Gross | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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