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Word: want (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...want to be courteous to me, won't you, when you go to bed at night, just say a prayer for me, as I go forth as a good Christian soldier to heal our wounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Poor Julius | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...automatic telephone dialing. The device, called the "Mémophone," is a mechanism which works independently of the ordinary telephone dial. On top of a small box is an indicator table, with room for 30 names. To call a number, you move the indicator opposite the name you want, press a lever, and the works inside the box then do the dialing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Memophone | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...market the Storytone, priced at $695. Story & Clark will distribute the piano, which is basically like other electronics, with the slogan "Voiced by RCA Victor." Not many manufacturers have yet made money on electric pianos. Reason: piano players are conservative; before buying a substitute for a piano they want to be sure they want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Voiced by RCA Victor | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...Judging from the record, the [steel] industry has become allergic to profits. To look at its performance you would think it had anticipated those who want the profit system abolished, and for all practical purposes had established itself as the first great industry devoted to the idea of production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETS: June Boom? | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...fear they want to Yale. --Des Moines Tribuse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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