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Word: auto (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Montreal, one Billy Hights bumped his auto into a truck. His wooden leg caught fire. Unable to jump, he was badly burned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Turnip | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...Steubenville, Ohio, one W. T. Fryan lost his nose in an auto accident. Searchers found it in the wreckage, a doctor grafted it back on with 70 stitches, and Fryan breathed naturally an hour later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Turnip | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...race and color trooped in and out. The better to understand three-dimensional space he first modelled his groups so that he could look down upon their heads and look behind them to find what masses would organize best, what planes intersect. Then he loaded his big brush with auto-paint and started to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: History of Commerce | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...seemed such a reliable instrument, so useful in relieving the pilot from constant attention to controls, so much more quick and accurate than a sleepy pilot in moving the controls, that Secretary of War Good permitted the War Department to award it one of its rare encomiums: "The auto-matic pilot has arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Gyroscopic Stabilizer | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Cried Democratic Gunner Harrison of Mississippi: "I come from a part of the country where people don't believe much in working Saturday afternoon. I share that view. We have had long hours here. Let's see some football, take an auto ride, play golf. We need recreation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Voice from Olympus | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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