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Woolworth   /wˈʊlwˌərθ/   Listen
Woolworth

noun
1.
United States businessman who opened a shop in 1879 selling low-priced goods and built it into a national chain of stores (1852-1919).  Synonym: Frank Winfield Woolworth.





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"Woolworth" Quotes from Famous Books



... Tenth Street they were bespelled by April. The Woolworth Tower, to the south, was an immortal shaft of ivory and gold against an unwinking blue sky, challenging the castles and cathedrals of the Old World, and with its supreme art dignifying the commerce which built and uses it. The Hudson was ...
— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis


Words linked to "Woolworth" :   Frank Winfield Woolworth, businessman, man of affairs


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