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Word: womens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discovered that in their hearts Harvard men are not what they seem to be. Instead, his own voters along Mass. Avenue, forgetting the primrose pavement, have needed the watchful eye of patrolling, police cars. Already, Sullivan's stitch-in-time has "put a stop to 'mashers' in automobiles accosting women. Any mother, wife or grown daughter who has had the necessity to walk along these through fares late at night, realizes the benefits of this police protection." To prove that he knows of what he is talking, Mickie has decorated the folder with his family picture--one wife, four daughters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THIRD TERM FOR GLAMOR | 11/7/1939 | See Source »

...ordered the unwilling University of London out of town, dispersed its various colleges and departments to about a dozen places. One university professor refused to be driven. To his workshop, the Galton laboratory, established by famed Geneticist Sir Francis Galton, marched bearded, burly Professor Ronald Aylmer Fisher with two women assistants. When guards stopped the assistants, Professor Fisher used his fists, succeeded in storming his own laboratory. There he patched up his party's wounds, went grimly to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Back to London | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...clever Japanese calculated that about 57% of their exports to the U. S. are raw silk, and that 52% of the silk is knitted into full-fashioned women's hosiery. The Japanese have observed that, at least in cities, U. S. women cannot do without silk stockings, and silk stockings wear out continually so that even a temporary buyers' strike is next to impossible. So by last week raw silk cost U. S. hosiers as much as $3.55½ a nine-year peak price, up nearly $1 since August, up $1.75 since December. U. S. silkmen were full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Paying with Silk | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...aside $3,500 for publicity, to blurb its heroine as "unforgettable." To early readers of the novel it was evident that this confidence was going to be abundantly justified, for two large reasons: 1) that the U. S. book-buying public is by large majority composed of women, and: 2) that it would be hard to imagine a book better qualified to delight that majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ladies'-Book | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...dance is primarily for Freshmen, but upperclassmen are also invited to get a look at the H.S.U. imported beauties. The girls are being recruited by representatives in the four women's colleges and will be transported by special busses to the scene of action Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Union's Dance Is Scheduled for Friday Night in Memorial Hall | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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