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Word: trunksful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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No one is quite so heavily sentimental as an old college athlete, especially an old footballer. To Manhattan's Dean Hill (Georgia Tech '12), football is the old-time religion. He helped found New York's Touchdown Club to foster good-fellowship among Varsity lettermen, takes flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Footballiana | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

At a wayside station on the shore of Lake Superior Reporter R. G. Anglin of the Toronto Star swung aboard. To him, for the first time since she left Tokyo, Anne Françoise Cox told her story. She had not dared to go to their house after Jimmy died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Blast All of You! | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

Last week, while most record buyers eyed the month's output of commercial jazz and symphonic music, plenty of country folk, and a great many juke-box operators, were more interested in the latest offerings of Messrs. Satherly and Kapp. Decca, which identifies such discs simply as "hillbilly" and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: September Records | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

Lawyer Callan happens to work for the firm of Shearman & Sterling, one of whose clients is Captain Rieber's Texas Corp. At week's end, Dr. Westrick packed his trunks without haste, made ready to move out of Lawyer Callan's house "as soon as possible." Next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A House in Scarsdale | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

Sunday morning the Witnesses climaxed their convention with a mass baptism for 2,500 in the pool of a Detroit amusement park. Candidates arrived in a mile-long caravan of cars, were garbed in backless swimming suits, trunks, nightgowns, house dresses and play suits. When the Witnesses were still cluttering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Witnesses in Detroit | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

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