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Word: wrapped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Declined to wrap Franklin Roosevelt and his whole New Deal in a blanket endorsement, elected the Carpenters' arch-Republican William Hutcheson first vice president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Back to Papa? | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...Simple instructions are more persuasive. When a teacher, pointing to glass toys, said "Put them away in the red box," 34 of 37 moppets did so. But when she said: "We have to be very careful of these glass animals. We wrap them up in tissue paper. We put them away in a red box. ... It would be too bad to break them. . . . You put them away," only seven children responded correctly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Peewee Persuasions | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...wrap a chicken they now stretch a latex bag over the top of a hollow metal cylinder. From the bottom air is withdrawn, sucking the bag in, until it forms a neat lining on the cylinder's walls. The chicken is popped in, air is exhausted from the bag, its mouth is closed. Then as the bag is dipped in warm water, it shrinks to fit skin-tight and almost invisible around the chicken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cryovac | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...have a shaving brush "of stiff hair, grayish in color . . . four-and-a-half inches over all, the handles three-quarters of an inch in diameter . . . stamped [on top] 'Japan 33²' and on the side . . . 'Imperial - sterilized' " put on your gloves, wrap it up, and bring it at once to your local health department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Warning to Shavers | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

Regarding robberies, Donelan said the Cambridge police have $300,000 worth of stolen clothing, including a $2300 ermine wrap taken from a car during the Chicago game when thieves out through the top get it. No owner has showed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student's Car Host to Negro Necking Party--Thief in Jail | 11/23/1938 | See Source »

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