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Word: paint (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Budapest, one Alice Posies' girl friends cried over her coffin last week. First of her set to practice a new fashion, she had abandoned stockings; had painted her legs with fantastic designs. The paint stain, like the shoe dye that poisoned Cobbler-Musician Cole of Laporte City, Iowa (TIME, April 4), polluted her blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Painted Legs | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

Anthony H. G. Fokker, upon seeing the monoplane America, which he designed and built for transatlantic flight, brought out of its hangar in a bright new coat of paint, threw up his hands and cried: "What! I spend all my time trying to take weight off the machine and they put on 40 Ib. of paint! Terrible! Terrible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PEOPLE: May 30, 1927 | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

Price of a New York Stock Exchange seat is like Jack-the-Giant-Killer's bean stalk-steadily it climbs higher. Last week it was, for a few hours, $215,000. Then William H. Bade, 29, onetime Princeton baseball captain, paint dealer, appeared; paid $217,000. Stockbroker Edward A. Pierce who sold that seat must pay approximately $4,000 New York State tax, about $20,000 Federal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: High Seat | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

...napkins for the dining halls; a high-vacuum pump and an electro-dyalizer for the Medical School; a pair of andirons and a clock at McKinlock Hall; miles of conduit and electric wires; a variety saw for the carpenter shop; plumbing supplies; lumber; ushers badges for Commencement; paint; mimeograph machines; typewriters; and every day and always, chemicals with impossible names which must be spelled right and be right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MISCELLANY OF ITEMS PASS THROUGH PURCHASING AGENTS OF UNIVERSITY | 5/27/1927 | See Source »

...lank, sunburned individual walked down the street. He stooped and had a two-days' growth of beard. He was encased in blue overalls, stitched with white. In one hand he carried a pail half filled with a dark brown paint; in the other a heavy brush. It was Bill Jones going to paint his barn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 23, 1927 | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

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