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Word: wooled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...born in 1864 in Hoboken, N.J. Said Stieglitz last week: "What is important is that I was conceived April 1, 1863." Seven years later his father, a successful wool merchant, moved the family to Manhattan. When Alfred was 17 Papa Stieglitz packed him off to Germany to become an engineer. In Berlin young Alfred fell for photography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: High Card | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

...imminence of hourly flights from New York to London. They were among the first to point up the need of meat rationing and coffee rationing and the foolishness of sugar rationing; the end of the aluminum shortage, the approach of the lumber shortage, and the nonexistence of the wool shortage. They foresaw the nationwide crisis in small business and the Washington chaos in raw materials. And months ago they showed that by year's end manpower would emerge as "the one big barrier holding back the U.S. war effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 23, 1942 | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

...rumor that the new uniforms darkening the Yard were Commando suite was cleared up as officials explained that the blue wool shirts and trousers are the new winter uniform. Used for all Naval students here, it has been especially designed to suit conditions of weather and school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications Unit Adds 300 Naval Men | 11/5/1942 | See Source »

...Home Companion, Saturday Evening Post, Redbook and American Magazine; Walter Winchell labeled her the most beautiful model in Manhattan. Why: her face; the rest: 35-in. bust, ditto hips, 25-in. waist, 5 ft. 8½ in. height, 114 lb. Eleanor Roosevelt modeled again, this time a two-piece wool suit-dress in Eleanor blue. She sat in it, found it didn't ride up, pronounced it good. Her newest feat: she popped out of sight of reporters, changed into the new dress, popped back again in three minutes flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Models | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

Commander Nancy Harkness Love of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (TIME, Sept. 21) last week told about WAFS uniforms: grey-green wool gabardine jackets with squared shoulders, gored skirts, overseas caps to match, civilian pilot wings on left breast pocket, tan broadcloth shirts and ties. For flying there will be helmets and grey-green slenderizing slacks (see cut). (Uniforms required on active duty only, optional at other times.) WAFS training starts this week at a New Castle (Del.) airport with 25 pilots of at least 200 horsepower rating and 500 hours' flying time. After four weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Lady Pilots | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

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