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Word: tins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This outfit was designed and tested by a woman hiker, who found that by means of it she was able to do a fortnight's tramping in the Austrian Alps without any additional equipment. A special feature of the outfit is the tin-opener, which has been especially constructed so that it leaves no rough edges on the tin. which may afterwards be used as an extra saucepan. The tent pole can also be used as a walking-stick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bicycle Boom | 11/14/1932 | See Source »

...good joke. Harvard and the majority of the many institutions could be no better place to go for a selection as they all eater to some of the best jokes that wear pauts. Come on now if you have any guts and give us a reply you bunch of tin wash boards. See you in the common. A Legion Booster. Hyde Park, Mass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grimm II | 10/29/1932 | See Source »

...from Hyde Park apparently refers to an editorial entitled "1945," which appeared in this column on October 26. Due to the severe restrictions imposed by a penny post card, the correspondent was unfortunately prevented from explaining his position more fully. But, in those times, "12 per week" for a "tin washboard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grimm II | 10/29/1932 | See Source »

...family have given 1, 000,000 bolivianos to the cause!" announced Bolivian Tin Tycoon Simon I. Patino, and presented two of his private German airplanes to the Government for bombing service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Wars of the Week | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

...comparatively prosperous and peaceable the past four years. That it remained peaceable last week was not the fault of the Japanese Legation guard. Acting under somebody's orders, they paraded not only through the legation quarter but up & down the native city with fixed bayonets on their long rifles, tin hats on their little round heads, and machine guns in evidence. Oddest feature of the demonstration was that it was begun at midnight and continued until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Provocatively Dangerous | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

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