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Word: tans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democrats. Into the field went organizers. Their success was immediate. By last week they had formed 2,000 units of from seven to 100 workers engaged in innumerable handcraft industries-tan-mng, spinning, weaving, printing, mining, making over 300 types of articles from boots to boats, from candles to light bulbs. Indusco last week boasted 50,000 cooperating members producing at the rate of $6,000,000 (Chinese) worth of goods every month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: New Industries | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...Lamps of tomorrow will mood-condition our homes, paint pleasing and ever-changing pictures or designs on our walls. kill bacteria, and so guard us against disease, provide us with health-giving radiation and sun tan while we sleep. . . . Heating lamps may warm our homes in cold weather." So prophesied Lamp Engineer Samuel Galloway Hibben of Westinghouse Lamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Technology Notes | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...vast illiterate army year after year marches through college without having acquired anything but a sun tan from the light to which they have been exposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Design | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...President still relies on moving pictures, and his favorites, like many another citizen's, are animated cartoons. He gets little time for his beloved stamp collection, little time to con his ship models, his collection of navy prints. Most cheering note to anti-third-termers: his big tan sombrero, which he wears on campaigns, is packed away many layers deep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Check-Up | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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