Word: substitutees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Day after day, practically without vacations, he carries on the pace. By nightfall his nerves are in knots. Formerly he used to take a few drinks of straight whiskey in order to relax. Nowadays his friends have persuaded him to substitute Scotch highballs as easier on the stomach. The liquor...
In your Miscellany Column (TIME, April 5), you mention that . . . the Midwest Hotel Show could hit upon no proper expedient to substitute for the name "Hors d'oeuvres." I hereby submit . . . the name "Offrecords," a name which intrigues my customers very much.
¶Passed a resolution appropriating $1,500,000 for San Francisco's 1939 World's Fair. Introduced in the House few days before was a bill appropriating $3,000,000 for New York's 1939 World's Fair, as a substitute for the $5,000,000...
Dusolina was first of the young Gianninis to reach the headlines. At 19 she was suddenly called upon to substitute for Soprano Anna Case in a Manhattan concert. Critics raved over the warm beauty of her voice, its effortless production. Dusolina made $50,000 that year (1923), went on to...
German, British and U. S. firms are currently engaged in an active struggle for U. S. sales of the best substitute for glass, in eyeglasses, binoculars, cameras and magnifying glasses, developed since Venetians invented spectacles in the 13th Century. Roehm & Haas Co. makes Plexigum, Plexiglas, Acryloid and Acrysol in Philadelphia...