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Word: yorke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nylon is not yet on the market, but Du Pont has given three girls at the New York World's Fair a pair of Nylon stockings apiece which they have been wearing steadily for the past three weeks. . . ." TIME, June 5 (p. 6). Hmm! Sotch feelthy enkles already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

FRITZ E. OSTERKAMP New York City Royal Welch Sirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...York World's Fair's amusement zone covers 280 acres - more ground than the entire Paris International Exposition of 1937. Yet, although the biggest in the history of Fairs, the amusement zone sticks pretty close to any canny Midway's rule-of-three : freaks, peeks and rides. The freak shows boast no overpowering monsters: there are the pigmies and giants, giraffe-necked women and two-headed cows. But of thrill-makers, the Fair has one wow, and for peepshows, in spite of police threats, it contains more public nudity than any place outside of Bali...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: As You Enter | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...Washington, in New York and, indeed, wherever we have been in the United States, we have been accorded a reception of which the friendliness was unmistakable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bread-&-Butter | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...darkly of possible reprisals if the Japanese refused to lift the blockade. The Cabinet met for two and a half hours, went over methods of economic retaliation. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes called Japan's action a "declaration of war against the British Empire." The New York Herald Tribune editorialized that the Japanese blockade was an "act of war." The New York Daily News argued for a U. S.-British blockade of Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Lots of Trouble | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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