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Word: outfit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Journal outfit cost Publisher Cox $1,943,685 in cold cash (for a 70% interest), plus an agreement to pay $761,400 more for the remaining 30% of its stock. For the Georgian, he gave Hearst $800,000, of which $300,000 was for good will. So Mr. Cox's Atlanta purchases cost him a total of approximately $3,500,000. To Cleveland Financier M. Smith Davis, for negotiating 1939's biggest newspaper deal, went a commission of over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Big Deal in Georgia | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...complete outfit, from black velvet dress to handbag, swagger stick and costume jewelry, made of synthetic fabrics or plastics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Marvels | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

None too optimistic about this evening's game, Hodder believes that he will need considerable more practice to weld his sextet into a smooth working outfit. The Crimson has come a long way since the start of practice, and Hodder maintains that Bill Coleman's team will be hard to stop by the end of the season...

Author: By Peter Dammann, | Title: HOCKEY TEAM OPENS SCHEDULE TONIGHT | 12/9/1939 | See Source »

...business. Willie Smith and Joe Thomas can play sax for anybody's all star swing band--in short, this is a band of a kind that you very rarely hear, and it's fronted by a man with enough personality, brains, and musical ability to bring his outfit up from small one-nighters to one of the few steady big time outfits...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 12/8/1939 | See Source »

...Harvard basketball team, only one of whose members has ever played in a varsity game before and only one of whose members can call himself six feet, opens its season against a tall, experienced M.I.T. outfit this evening at 8:45 o'clock on the Indoor Athletic Building floor...

Author: By John C. Robbins jr., | Title: Four Sophomores Start as Basketball Schedule Begins With Tech Tonight | 12/5/1939 | See Source »

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