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Word: downs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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I happened to go to Macy's quite early that Tuesday morning ... I found myself fairly shoved into the coat department by the determination of a large group of women. Their entry was so forcible that I saw several racks of coats knocked over and one of the smaller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 24, 1930 | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

Ladder. Rule No. 8 is the last one: Don't go around without a ladder. That is, always have handy a means of climbing down from the eminence you achieve, that you may live to try again four years later. Most notable recent breaker of this rule is Lowden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: How It's Done | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

One Fruit Industries' official said: "After hiring Mrs. Willebrandt. [the company] picked out New Haven for trial of sales experiment. This was turned down by Washington. They then picked Cleveland. This was also turned down by Washington, and they were told to put on the opening campaign in Milwaukee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Simply Remove the Bung | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

Flailing away with both hands, up and down the corn rows the farmers went as fast as they could go, each well-trained team of horses leading in front without direction, each tough cornstalk a fight. After 80 min. a gun boomed. Swiftly the judges weighed the yield. Ray Hanson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: At Palmer's | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

To get back to the two Houses; they both have been having secret practice. This is bad. It may explain the panels in Lowell House tower, but it defeats the whole purpose of the Plan itself. The boys are supposed to chum around with each other. To segregate the football...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE POWER AND THE GLORY | 11/20/1930 | See Source »

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