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Word: around (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Late one afternoon, President Coolidge sniffed enjoyably at false spring in the misty February air. Leaving off his overcoat, he set forth for a walk-down West Executive avenue, around the ellipse, up the opposite side. Then he did something that Presidents very seldom do: he went calling on a Cabinet official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Elder Statesmen | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...Hoovers boarded Manhattan Banker Jeremiah Milbank's yacht Saunterer and cruised away at slow speed for the Florida Keys, for Fort Myers and a birthday party with their great and good friend Thomas A. Edison. Mr. Hoover planned to go on around to the West Coast and try for an early-running tarpon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Boy Scout | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...Chateau Thierry, commanding the Fifth Regiment; through Soissons, St. Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne to the Coblenz bridgehead. On the way into Germany, re-placement doughboys stole his greenish Marine overcoat, stars and all, mistaking it for a German officer's. He later found it draped comfortably around an Army mule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Neville for Lejeune | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...special lesson will give the fundamentals of steering, including how to bring a shell to a float without shelling the float, how to take four crews abreast around the sinuous curves of the Charles River, and how to achieve the crowning glory of taking a shell through the right hand arch of the Larz Anderson Bridge, on the way upstream, without running it on shore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prospective Coxswains to Gain Steersman's Lingo Seasoned With Billinsgate--Special Course Given to Aid Vocabulary | 2/16/1929 | See Source »

...Freshman team is built around a nucleus of Ordway Southard '32 and C. D. Laine '32 who are members of the University team which, besides successfully defending its Intercollegiate Championship, now bids fair to capture the Massachusetts Metropolitan League title...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1932 Meet Exeter at Chess | 2/15/1929 | See Source »

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