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Last week a group of Manhattan bankers and labor leaders furbished up a new sort of bait to attract the $6,000,000,000 to $7,000,000,000 which U. S. labor accumulates each year.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cleaners furbished up the D. A. R.'s Constitution Memorial Hall where the evening ceremonials would occur.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nineteen years later the flagon had been furbished up, called the America's Cup, put in competition for the second time.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meanwhile the U. S. S. Houston, fitted and furbished as never before, was steaming to Annapolis to pick up President Roosevelt for the longest holiday out of the U. S. ever taken by a President.
From Time Magazine Archive
And wherever they went they found that in the sacred cause of Liberty weapons were being forged and armour furbished for the ships that stood by along the coast to carry away.
From The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere by Coster, Charles de
