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Word: around (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maybe he wants to talk," suggested a leading lyncher. Down came Ratliff again. "Go on! Talk!" shouted the crowd. But the rope was around Ratliff's neck so tight that he could only gasp and sputter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: String Him Up | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...they did puzzled Senators because the report showed that since April i, 1929, there have been fewer arrests, fewer prosecutions, fewer stills and less malt liquor seized than during the corresponding period last year. Only the seizure of spirits increased in quantity. Also, importation of liquor from Canada, averaging around 500,000 gals, per month in the summer of 1928, was reported halved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Smaller the Higher | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...potent of many articles by Emile Zola which eventually freed Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus from "Devil Island," where an anti-Semite French government had sent him to rot. The fight to free Dreyfus took six of Clemenceau's and Zola's best years. Last week the grateful captain stumped around to sign M. Clemenceau's visitors book, just before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Clemenceau | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...Now?would you please sit a little differently? Just swing your head around and we'll have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Steichen* | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...Morgan moved his head around, then swung it back into the identical position. But Photographer Steichen had got what he wanted?his subject had relaxed. It was the same pose, but more naturally and easily arrived at. Snap. Another picture. Exactly two minutes had elapsed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Steichen* | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

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