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Word: womanizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broad bill and webbed feet. Like some snakes, it carries venom (male only, in a spur on its hind leg). And it has a beaver-like tail which makes it seem double-ended. Its fur is coarse, runs in color from dark brown to silver grey. No woman would choose it for its beauty or usefu1ness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Duckbill Robe | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

...during the next six months. Murphy presently became president, directed the company so successfully that by October 1937 Guaranty had paid two preferred dividends of 15? and 10? a share, aggregating approximately $750,000. More than 3,000 letters testified to the gratitude of stockholders. One woman had her roof fixed with the $2.50 she received, took her dishpan back to the kitchen at last. One oldster of 94 years found 80? reason enough to thank God and Murphy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Great Expectations | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

...greatest grape crop in California's history, 2,409,000 tons, including raisin and table grapes-and the Wine Institute had just reported to its members that the U. S. will this year drink 63,000,000 gallons of California wine-two quarts for every man, woman, gaffer & gammon in the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Vin Ordinaire | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

...urbane, astute fathers, is one of the most useful male orders of the Roman Catholic Church, so the Society of the Sacred Heart, with its dozens of well-run schools and colleges which attract Protestants as well as Catholics, is outstanding among orders on the distaff side. The French woman who founded the order in 1800, Madeleine Sophie Barat, was sainted in 1925. Her resourceful and impetuous colleague, Philippine Rose Duchesne, who founded the order in the New World in 1818, lies buried in front of the frame convent she built on the Missouri River at St. Charles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sacred Heart History | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

Because the prince had appropriated his champion fighting cock and put out his brother's eyes for having an affair with a harem woman, Peasant Pak lies low during the fighting, wastes no time mourning his jasmine-scented leader. Realist Pak's patriotism is concentrated on his rice fields and chickens, his exciting second wife and his own neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Island of the Year | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

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