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Word: undershirt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wise deans would be quick to realize that this is no Utopian scheme. Its ofticacy is scientifically assured. For who can contest the overwhelming evidence in support of the theory that when a man has divested himself of his coat, his vest, his shirt, and his undershirt he comes to himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEANS AND JEANS | 3/19/1925 | See Source »

...arrived. Each team lined up with eleven men in the first game. The McGill men appeared dressed after the English fashion and consequently made a much better impression than did the University eleven whose members appeared on the field attired in a dark pair of trousers, a white undershirt, which had the advantage of ripping when seized, and a magenta handkerchief tied upon the head as was traditional with the crews. The clothing survived the first match which, being played under the Harvard rules, was not as rough as the second played under the McGill Rugby rules...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth-McGill Game Recalls Momentous Contest With Canadians in 1884 and Flow of Champagne Afterwards | 10/7/1924 | See Source »

...woman existed and finally made themselves comfortable in a hidden wilderness. When they arrived, via a gorge of rapids, the woman had no standard equipment at all (her bathing suit had been torn off by the torrent's claws) and the man had only a coat, trousers, undershirt and a hunting knife. Before the rescue, a good many weeks later, they were living in a log bungalow with a full line of cooking utensils, clothes and toilet articles. Manufacture of these things did not interest the producers (quite properly). They were forced for reasons of dramatic necessity to stress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 25, 1924 | 8/25/1924 | See Source »

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