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Word: windowful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...goods store window dressers have always quickly aped every Paris exposition and last week in Manhattan swank Saks-Fifth Avenue filled its windows with similar naked mannequins and fur coats flung about. Result: most women walkers on Fifth Avenue hurried past the little knots who gathered to gaze and scoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Success! | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

Snarled an Alabama sheriff, "Why don't you get in there with your clients, you ?" Peering from a courthouse window, watching the motorcycle-escorted cars start on their dash for the Tennessee State line, was the rouged face of a white female named Victoria Price, 22, whose insistent tale of a nine-Negro rape in an Alabama freight car in March 1931 had made the Scottsboro Case an enduring stink in the annals of Alabama law (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Scottsboro Hero | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

Most significant cases now before FTC are two big anti-trust actions against the cement industry and the window glass makers, and four Robinson-Patman Act cases, notably those involving Standard Brands and Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. FTC's first Robinson-Patman Act cases were closed this week. Dismissed were the complaints filed against Kraft-Phenix Cheese and Bird & Son. Inc. (TIME, Oct. 12). In the Kraft case FTC held that this company's price rating did not lessen or injure competition. In the Bird case, which involved selling floor coverings to Montgomery Ward & Co. for less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: FTC | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

...five-room flat to a five-room house, for which he will pay $35 per month. He is behind on the installments on a two-year-old Ford, has about finished paying off $600 of hospital and doctor bills incurred for his wife, who fell out of a window while hanging out the wash. Harry Bridges himself has been in the hospital twice in the last two years for stomach ulcers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: C.I.O. to Sea | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

When the State veterinarians knocked at the door next morning to do their duty, Mrs. Gibson called out of an upstairs window: "You'll not be able to test them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Individualist's Cows | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

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