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Word: soaped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most valuable hired men in Boston are apparently Mahlon E. Traylor, who was paid $216,505 by Massachusetts Distributors. Inc., sales agency for stock in Massachusetts Investors Trust, and Francis Albert Countway, a retiring bachelor with a fondness for badminton, whose knowledge of the soap business was worth $286,995 to Lever Bros...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Salaries | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

...costliest yachts, they ransacked Carrier's in Paris for diadems, in October they picked out the ermine skins recently made up in London for Mrs. Simpson's Christmas (TIME, Dec. 28). Simultaneously she caught His Majesty's servants spending too much for things like bath soap and King Edward sacked retainers right & left on her lightest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Woman of the Year | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

From Midland, Dow indirectly serves the washwoman (with caustic soda in soap), the tiremaker (with sulphur chloride used in vulcanizing rubber), the shoe maker (sodium sulphide for tanning), the cleaner (chloroform and carbon tetrachloride), the dyer (synthetic indigo), the rayon maker (acetic anhydride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Brine Business | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...Arthur has never lost his enthusiasm for this cosmic soap bubble. But the speeds indicated by the amount of redshift, some of which now equal 25,000 miles per second, have made many astronomers doubt. Other causes for the redshift were suggested, such as cosmic dust or a change in the nature of light over great stretches of space. Two years ago Dr. Hubble admitted that the expanding universe might be an illusion, but implied that this was a cautious and colorless view. Last week it was apparent that he had shifted his position even further away from a literal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Shift on Shift | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...their pet courses slide like the quotations of a utility stock in 1929 no longer have to be told that the days when a course could go along on its own momentum are over. Undergraduates are becoming increasingly critical and observant, and their opinion, freely expressed, was the soap on the bathroom floor which sent Sociology A and Philosophy B skidding to destruction. The voice of the student body is becoming a factor of increasing importance in shaping the curriculum of the college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STARS REMAIN | 11/6/1936 | See Source »

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