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Word: accidentally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harry F. Sinclair? once a druggist's lazy son in Independence, Kan., who one day shot himself in the foot while out hunting and from the accident insurance money built up an oil fortune big enough for him to help back the late Federal Baseball League (1915), to play with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: A Jury On Oil | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

Some critics cry that here is built up a tragedy, weakened by a happy ending; but the happiness is a realistic accident arising out of the destruction of youth's defiant assuredness. Poetic writing, sensibility to the relationship between men and Nature, insight into the illogicality of human action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Oct. 31, 1927 | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

Mr. Lyles is a short, vanilla-colored gentleman whose serious cast of countenance belies his reputation as one of the most irresistible Negro stage comedians who ever slapped a softshoe. In fact it was quite by accident that he went on the stage. People who were convulsed by the Messrs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Florence Mills Warned | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

When the clamor on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange had been stilled to permit President Edward Henry Harriman Simmons to announce in hard, sharp accents that a member, found guilty of unethical conduct of his brokerage business, was expelled, the member in question, Herman W. Booth, was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Return of the Broker | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

The Club last year had a record of over, 10,000 miles of flying without an accident. This year support from, the graduates will be solicited and a graduate committee of 20 will be formed.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FLYING CLUB HAS INITIAL MEETING TODAY AT UNION | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

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