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Word: trimly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, Tom Bolles has been gradually working his Varsity boats into racing trim, and the boatings begin to take on a fixed character. In the case of the first boat the lineup is pretty much the same as last year at Henley. Of course Bill Rowe had turned over the stroke position to Jack Wilson then, and Jack still makes the pace. However, the number three position is becoming a problem, beng the spot vacated by Dud Talbot last year...

Author: By William W. Tyng, | Title: Crimson Sweepswingers Prime For Opening Race on April 27 | 4/9/1940 | See Source »

...California agriculture is a taut, highly organized, high-speed industry, requiring large numbers of skilled and semiskilled workmen-as well as untrained migrants -workmen to trim, grade and pack its produce, fill its refrigerator cars in no time, get its highly perishable fruit from tree to market without loss. (Apricots must be picked in 14 to 16 hours or the grower stands to lose his year's work.) This month the season for California's migrants begins in earnest. From now through September, maturing crops will pull men over the highways as the sun ripens successively the asparagus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Okies | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...Chez Paree, on Chicago's North Side, trim, blonde, blue-eyed Dorothy Laxon, 22, of Minneapolis, told her tale. She took up dancing at 12, got her stage start five years ago with one of Packer George A. Hormel's traveling shows to advertise Hormel meat products. Rather than risk winding up her career as a Spam actress, Dorothy sent her picture to Chez Paree, has been one of 17 girls in the line there for four years. Dorothy's ambition: a chance in a Broadway show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Chorus Calls | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

Monday at 9:30 a. m., Il Duce's trim train pulled in at the little mountain village of Brennero, in the famed Brenner Pass, just over the German border in Italy. Forty minutes later the Führer's train arrived in a driving snow storm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMATIC FRONT: Brenner Pass Parley | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...years U. S. paint manufacturers have tried to sell homeowners the virtues of paint instead of wallpaper. Their difficulty was that housewives couldn't visualize from a color card what their walls and trim would look like after paint was on. With wallpaper they could take home sample books and see for themselves. To overcome this handicap, Cleveland's big Sherwin-Williams Co. launched an ambitious $250,000 project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Visual Paint | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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