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Word: againe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like many another pilot's wife, Mrs. "Cash" Chamberlain has listened for years at 3,105 kilocycles on the short-wave radio for her husband's cheery voice while he, a 1,000,000-mile veteran, was on his Northwest Airlines runs. One night last week, after she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Pilot's Voice | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

In Chicago last week Drs. Francis Wood Godwin and Alfred Orpheus Walker showed pictures of a .22 calibre bullet in flight taken at speeds of about one-millionth of a second, fastest exposure ever accomplished. These photographs revealed the bullet "stopped" in its course, a clear-cut image with highlights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Quick as a Flash | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

By the time he was 48, Colonel Ruppert was a very rich man. He had made millions in real estate, millions more in beer. But he was not happy. He wanted to own a ball club again. His offer for the New York Giants was refused. Someone suggested that he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Four Straight Jake | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

When he tries to land at Baton Rouge, soldiers guarding the levee see his convict uniform, open fire. Out in the current again, the boat whirls downstream. Miles from nowhere, on an old Indian mound crowded with snakes, the baby is born. After six days the convict gets so he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: When the Dam Breaks | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

That chapter closes when engineers blow up the levee to save New Orleans, and the convict, the woman and the baby have to move on again. Six weeks from the time he had been washed away, the convict gets back to the place where his journey began. "Yonder's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: When the Dam Breaks | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

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