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Word: wissahickon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Entrance Examinations for Bryn Mawr, in which her mark was 99. Net gave no trouble until, out of Bryn Mawr and married to a wholesale druggist, she tried to do her husband's double entry bookkeeping. Father Scott straightened that out on a two-hour walk along the Wissahickon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Parents' Algebra | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

...year, 1929, it turned out nearly 1,000,000 sets, and its total sales were supposed to have been $60,000,000. At that time Mr. Kent was certainly not dubious about the profit possibilities of radio. He rushed a tremendous addition to the plant on Philadelphia's Wissahickon Avenue, starting production in it before the cornerstone was officially dedicated. Visitors were awed by Atwater Kent's luxurious general offices, dumfounded when they peeked through a special window to watch solid gold bars dissolving in acid to supply 14 carat plating for the Atwater Kent trade mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Kent Quits | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

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