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Word: circular (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wearing a short circular skirt and woolen shirt, her strokes as powerful as ever and her reflexes as quick, Oldster Sears amazed the galleries with her extraordinary stamina and agile court coverage, amused them with her rambunctious mannerisms and screaming but good-natured queries to the referee-as though he were way down in the cellar tending the furnace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grand Old Girl | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...blue-carpeted, wide circular staircase to the main ballroom of Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel paraded 99 of this season's debutantes, wealthy, wellborn, circumspect in public, acceptable to the Old Guard of Manhattan society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Back in September 1929, when world prosperity still nourished world idealism, that great dreamer Aristide Briand started talking about "The United States of Europe." He even went so far as to send a circular to 26 Governments asking them what they thought about federation. Only three were enthusiastic. Their names are significant: Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, Yugoslavia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Paper Plan | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

This song of praise for "the oldest college daily" is contained in a recent circular put out by the New Haven journalists in an effort to bolster up a sagging circulation with name Vassar subscriptions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REJUVENATED YALE DAILY SEEKS VASSAR SUBSCRIBERS | 10/7/1939 | See Source »

...could carry and release a great many. The casing was criss-crossed with grooves like a bar of chocolate so that a 10-pound bomb would fly into 800 small, jagged fragments of uniform shape. Many of the fragments fly out horizontally, giving the burst an effect like the circular sweep of a machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Science & War | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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