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Word: sundback (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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ZIPPER Invented in 1913 by Swedish immigrant Gideon Sundback at Universal Fastener Co. in Pennsylvania. B.F. Goodrich first used the word to refer to a fastener on a pair of its galoshes; it was not used in clothes until the 1930s. By 1941 zippers beat the pants off buttons in the Battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Hundred Great Things | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...DOLE'S ATTACK ON HOLLYWOOD IS laughable. In my lifetime, Washington has contributed more to the moral decay of America than Hollywood has. Hollywood at least is fiction; Washington is real life. Scott Sundback Saegertown, Pennsylvania Via America Online...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 3, 1995 | 7/3/1995 | See Source »

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