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Word: abouts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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"There was in the village I come from an old man who was a very devout Catholic. The nearest chapel was six miles from the village, and in order to worship he had to hire a trap-it was before the days of motor cars. It cost him six shillings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No War: No Blockade | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

Anxiously Mme Delacroix listened to her husband's breathing. She remembered that when the Young Plan Committee was sitting in Paris, Britain's great Banker Baron Revelstoke had gone to bed similarly weary and died of heart failure before dawn (TIME, Jan. 14 to June 17). Banker Delacroix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Baden-Baden Bankers | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

Newspapers do not often compliment each other, with or without cause. But last week Variety, Manhattan theatrical weekly, took off its slouch hat to the august New York Times, thus: HONEST TIMES "Col. Charles Lindbergh finally sent the only photographs of himself and bride on their honeymoon to the New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Honest Butcher | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

Among the other movies to be presented in the future are "Beau Geste," with Ronald Colman, "The Strong Man," with Harry Langdon, "The General," with Buster Keaton, and "The Birth of a Nation." These shows will be given about once a month, in the Living Room of the Union.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB SPONSORS UNION FILM SHOWINGS | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

"A woman once called up to ask for full details about the rock of Gibraltar-its weight, size, and height; and the most remarkable part of that story was that we were able to give them to her!" Thus answered Karl Dahlquist, for seven years in charge of the general...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weight of the Rock of Gibralter Sought From University Information Bureau-1000 Invitations a Day Readdressed | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

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