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Word: wears (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colonel Apted, though, has been favored by more attention. He has eight letters, asking him for the supposedly unwanted kitten, and his secretary is already showing definite signs of wear from answering "innumerable" phone calls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APTED SWAMPED WITH CALLS AS PUBLIC CLAMORS FOR CAT | 2/8/1938 | See Source »

...like a white elephant on the opposite shore. That was the house where they'd moved that girls' school a few years ago after its fire. It must be nice to be a schoolgirl, he thought, having nothing to worry about but keeping the rules and learning how to wear clothes and marrying some rich husband some day. More fun to be the rich husband, though...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/4/1938 | See Source »

Alex Northrop is the sole Harvard runner in the 1000, and Al Hanlon will wear the Crimson in the 600 yard distance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELEVEN CRIMSON TRACK MEN IN K. OF C. GAMES | 1/28/1938 | See Source »

...American Student Union a lot more consideration than it deserves. ... I assure you, on U. S. campuses people who belong to the American Student Union are not taken particularly seriously. It is not that they are mostly second-generation Europeans; it is not that they talk too loudly and wear badly-fitted clothes; it is just that they are so damned publicity hungry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 24, 1938 | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

Managing Director Earl Constantine of the National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers finally issued a warning to his trade: a silk stocking boycott would hurt hosiery mills because lisle stockings wear four times as long as silk and 42,000.000 dozen pairs of silk stockings annually would shrink to ten or twelve million annual output if lisle were substituted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Boycott Business | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

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