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Word: handiness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Buick has low, spread-eagled, "catwalk-cooling"' radiator grilles, a distinctive narrow nose. Down in price from $16 to $102, the four straight-eight series of Buicks now cost $996 to $2,074. Standard on all models this year is the handi-shift gear control; optional on some are sunshine tops, stream boards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Four-Wheel Debutantes | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...Bern was expected to follow, but instead he telephoned to say that his headache was worse and he pre ferred to stay home. For several days the strongest evidence of suicide-motive was his personal physician's statement that the autopsy showed Paul Bern had suffered "a physical handi cap that would have prevented a happy marriage." At the Plaza Hotel in San Francisco last week there was a guest named Dorothy Millette. She had registered there early last May. Before that she had lived for 15 years at Manhattan's literary Hotel Algonquin where she was known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Death in Hollywood | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

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