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Word: sold (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gave a ground lesson to the late Thomas Alva Edison), movie consultant and test pilot. By 1929 he was able to set down his flying notions in good plain English in newspapers and magazines. In 1932 he turned out a book, Flying, and How To Do It, that sold mightily for a dollar. On the strength of this, Funk & Wagnalls engaged him to write a $2.50 book, Your Wings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Pithy Primer | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...Raymond explained that in the days when skiing was new in this region, waxing was a science which only experts could understand. The "universal waxes" sold to the average skier in those days were far from satisfactory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Professional Advises Beginner Of Average Ability to Use Lacquer, Wax | 1/13/1939 | See Source »

Hume hired a truck to haul the wreck back to the States at a cost of $7.50. Back home he sold the remains...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUNIOR RUINS FORD AFTER USING SNOWBANK AS A BEAKE | 1/12/1939 | See Source »

...pound six footer who has a scholarship, Sears played on the Freshman football team this fall. During the summer he sold ice 12 hours a day for $20 a week; he has driven trucks for his father, who has a small paper hauling business operating from North Attleborough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Freshman Calls Republican Volunteers to Break Georgian Strike | 1/11/1939 | See Source »

...Life" leads the list of magazines sold for the second straight year, while next come "Look", "Colliers", "The Saturday Evening Post", and "Cosmopolitan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Shun Girlie Mags, News-Stand Figures Reveal | 1/10/1939 | See Source »

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