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Word: underwear (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maurice, fresh from Bolshoye Bikovo, where the streets were a quagmire most of the time, where the peasants killed their colts every spring and lived in one-room huts with pigs, chickens and vast swarms of flies, where no one had ever heard of such products of civilization as underwear, toothbrushes or toilets, "Mount Brookville" was wonderful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two Villages | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...Amateur victory in 1935, went the distinction of being the fourth U. S.-born-&-bred golfer to win the British Amateur** and the first to beat its peculiar hazards in his first competitive experience on a British course. He attributed his amazing victory to a suit of red flannel underwear his friend and fellow townsman, Bobby Jones, had given him to keep out the Scottish gales. Scottish spectators thought they had seen the greatest golfer since Bobby Jones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: After Jones | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...look strange to us for a while to see our athletes attired in something closely resembling underwear," Miss Mildred Madden observes shyly in the current issue of the Radcliffe News, but her article goes on to give whole-hearted endorsement to the new gymnasium outfit to be put into effect next fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Athletes Have to Sacrifice Traditional Bloomers---Adopting Pleated Shorts with Zippers | 5/31/1938 | See Source »

Questioned about the men's sleeping habits the Chief replied, "Some of them sleep in their underwear, some of them wear pajamas, others-well, they don't wear too much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fire Chief Deplores Lack of Spirit Shown by Present Day Crimson Jokers | 5/13/1938 | See Source »

...mouthful of vegetarian fodder 32 times. Editor of Good Health, author of Plain Facts (sex education via pictures of plant life), he is the inventor of flaked cereals manufactured by his brother, W. K. Kellogg. Dr. Kellogg once dictated (indoors) for 20 hours straight, dressed only in his summer underwear. Last week he celebrated his 86th birthday by stripping to a loin cloth, dictating (outdoors) to a secretary, having his picture taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 7, 1938 | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

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