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Word: solarium (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swiftly social censers moved to block further error, taking the stand that "lawns need no decorating". Handed down "per order Chief Justice" were decisions regarding proper places to sunbathe. Henceforth inquisitive Harvard-men may expect to find vitamin D enthusiasts half nude--behind the observatory, wholly nude--the solarium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Too Much Sprawling on Sofas, Nude Sunbathing Provoke Sharp Criticism of Vassar Indecencies | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

...whose clock face is usually perched just above and in front of the official as he sits in his accustomed chair before the starboard rear observation window. Nevertheless, last week the Boston & Maine joined the current race to lure passengers with gimcracks when it installed a speedometer in the solarium of its crack, streamlined Flying Yankee. Developed by Waltham Watch Co., the instrument is actuated by a small electric generator connected to the car wheels. If it works without too much tinkering, pleases the public, B. & M. plans to install one in each de luxe day-coach on all through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: B. & M.'s Gadget | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

...replaced, by airplane, from Omaha. Then somebody inadvertently slammed a door on a wire leading to the air condenser, which was repaired while the train coasted down a 20 mi. incline. These vexations overcome, Zephyr began to show her heels-80, 90, 100, 110, 112.5 m.p.h. In the rear solarium some coffee spilled as the train rocketed around curves at 90 m. p. h. Twice "Zeph," the burro, toppled over. Folk turned out by the cheering thousands in 164 dust-bitten western towns through which Zephyr flashed. Two thousand five hundred constables, legionaries, volunteer citizens, railway men guarded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Second Year | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

...always been able to carry so wide a variety as the main stores, have had to resort to samples. This second handicap Franklin Simon & Co., with a large modern building on Boston Post Road, a heavy stock of women's clothes and special features including a beauty shop, solarium, children's barber shop and terrace tea room, expects to overcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fifth Avenue to Greenwich | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...Arts and Letters, the holder of innumerable prizes beginning with a medal from the 1892 Paris Exposition. He may not be the foremost painter in the U. S., but he is certainly the foremost painter of East Hampton, L. I., where he has a fine summer house and a solarium in which he last year offered to wrestle or box with disrespectful commentators. His wealth, position and appearance well qualified Painter Hassam to be the first subject of a series of short one or two reel cinemas, made and released by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, to preserve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Psalter & Olive Branch | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

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