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Word: types (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trouble with the early type of slide fastener was the display of metal--too much of a suggestion of work clothes. I'm for this new covered zip with the invisible fastener, it's a finished product for a finished dresser...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGE MEN PREFER CLOTHES MADE WITH INVISIBLE CLOSURE | 10/24/1934 | See Source »

...attachment to him; at least he does not try to shake him off or even notice him, because this whole business of Mayor Curley being the Massachusetts Roosevelt man is very embarrassing to President Roosevelt. Mr. Roosevelt is a politician; so he tries to make the ward-boss type of political worker think he likes Curley and at the same time tries to keep men like Professor Taussig thinking he has not forgotten his sense of honesty and political efficiency amid his efforts to build up party solidarity. Sometimes it looks as if Mr. Roosevelt just simply does not know...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 10/24/1934 | See Source »

...young man named Petrus Kalemen, later said to be Vlada Georgieff. On his arm was tattooed the motto and device of a Mace donian secret society known as IMRO. The weapon with which the murders were committed was a huge ungainly Mauser automatic pistol of the latest type which sprays 20 shots like a machine gun. In his pockets Kalemen also carried a Walther pistol, a hand grenade, and 150 loose cartridges. He did not need them. With the Mauser he was able To kill: Alexander of Jugoslavia Foreign Minister Louis Barthou of France Yolande Farris Mme Marie Dubrec...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUGOSLAVIA: Little King | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

...have in numerous instances prevented the spread of cancer to remote parts of the victim's body. Some patients whom Dr. Coley treated with the good old Fluid 40 years ago are still alive. Because indubitably Coley's Fluid cured some people who were dying of this type of cancer, the righteous Doubting Thomases of the American Medical Association hesitantly approved it as a "New & Nonofficial Remedy" 24 years ago. Last week, with much less hesitancy, the A. M. A. reaffirmed its approval, advising in a three-column report and a two-column editorial in its Journal that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Good Old Fluid | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

...about 50 years ago to turn out a vacuum brake, got involved in patent squabbles with George Westinghouse, and the upshot was an agreement whereby New York made Westinghouse brakes under license. Today the business is split approximately 25% to New York, 75% to Westinghouse. Westinghouse's new type AB was put on the market three years ago. Only 30,000 cars are now equipped with it. But there are some 2,000,000 freight cars with old-type brakes. Thus at first blush it looked as if the two air brake companies could count 200,000 brake orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Air Brakes | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

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