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Word: accidentally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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It is a stormy evening, well after dark. The road is slick as an eel under your automobile's tires. You come to a curve, or a grade crossing. "Just the moment for an accident," you mutter to yourself. But, possibly because you recognize it as dangerous, this setting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Motor Crashes | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

For two months this city of 40,000 has paid neither its policemen nor its firemen. Last week the local council decided to close one of the two fire stations. Public spirited citizens, who realize that most of the business section is of old, highly inflammable construction deemed good enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Municipal Beggary | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

TIME was so far from supposing that the bow of the S-51 came up "by the desire or intent of the salvage force" as to state ". . . (the) workers were astonished to see the nose of the sunken monster suddenly poke through the waves. . . ." The facts of this accident as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 19, 1926 | 7/19/1926 | See Source »

I discovered this jewel by accident. Sure, enter my subscription.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 28, 1926 | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

Died. Elbridge Gerry Snow 3rd, 26, grandson of President Elbridge Gerry Snow of the Home Insurance Co., War hero, sportsman; at Stamford, Conn., as a result of injuries sustained in a polo accident.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 14, 1926 | 6/14/1926 | See Source »

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