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Word: workmen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dismantled plant, immediately recalled that, two weeks before, the stonecutting firm of T. C. Diener Co. had also reported that their closed plant, consisting of four buildings full of machinery, had been completely razed. Investigation disclosed that both jobs had been done by a crew of Negro workmen. A trail of canceled checks soon led to their employer, hulking 225-lb. Edward Rockwood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Wrecker | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

Over the $25,000 gateway to Northwestern University's downtown Chicago Campus at Lake Shore Drive and Superior St. is a wrought iron sign. Last June workmen chiseled out of it the word "campus," substituted the word "gates." Then it read Alexander McKinlock Memorial Gates. Few people noticed the change, however, and not until last week did Northwesterners learn that their university's famed McKinlock Campus had been renamed the Chicago Campus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Refund | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

Margaret Bourke-White's salary remains in the five-figure class. She wears Paris clothes, but she roughs it to photograph Russian peasants, floods, droughts, American workmen, all of which have come to interest her more than ice-boxes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ace Photographer | 11/27/1937 | See Source »

...fumes in the basement corridors of Lowell House Monday were caused by a dead-end main on Holyoke Street leaking through the wall of the cellar it was reported today. Up to early yesterday morning workmen of the Cambridge Gas Company were drilling and shopping the street in front of the Cambridge Athletic Building in an effort to remedy the hazard. There is no gas piped into Lowell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gas Leaks in Lowell | 11/24/1937 | See Source »

...smooth the path to the Dean's office, workmen will be pounding away at the steps of University Hall with bush hammers for the next few days. The surface of the slippery steps, which has been the cause of a flying tumble for many is being chopped into little ridges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORRY MAINTENANCE DEPT. SMOOTH UNIVERSITY STEPS | 11/17/1937 | See Source »

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