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Word: accidentally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mary W. Harriman, widow of Railroad-Financier Edward Henry Harriman (died 1909): "The gold medal which I give annually to the railroad with the best non-accident record again went to the Union Pacific last week. My husband, of whose $100,000,000 estate I am sole heir and manager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: people: Dec. 20, 1926 | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

For a while the scenario promises to translate into film the same pic turesque fierceness. At one moment, it achieves a truly inspired version of the play's own irony; the marines march off to their first baptism of hellfire; Charmaine (Dolores Del Rio) waves good-bye to her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Dec. 6, 1926 | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

It was 25 years since, smashed in a train accident, she had suffered almost complete paralysis of one side of her body, but only 24 years since she set one of her best records, at a trapshooting meet in New Jersey: 25 clay birds straight, 10 live birds straight, 25...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Little Sureshot | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

In legal medicine it is occasionally necessary to know just how drunk, or nearly drunk, a person was at the moment of accident or crime. For comparison purposes, Dr. Villedent of Paris has collated a table from French and German research. Conclusions depend on the fact that alcohol quickly permeates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drunks | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

One of the stories was about a fractious Chinaboy who invented printing, by accident, through getting jam on his father's carvings. Another was of the sea-dwelling Shen (demons) who inundated a great city to expand their province but were later outwitted by the wisest of kings. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Week | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

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