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Word: beaching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...better residential architecture. He got public baths built and a commodious Convention Hall. An eccentric old Kentucky colonel, Thomas H. Swope, grew so enthusiastic that he donated 1,354 acres to give Kansas City, Mo., the fourth largest public park in the U. S.* Swope Park, with its bathing beach, golf courses, tennis courts, bridle paths, zoo is one of the happiest things that ever happened to a city, though the buzzards that sometimes circle over it, especially during drought, are reminders of the gruesome death of the city's benefactor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGNS: Grand Old Party | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...fellow Pennsylvanians feared she might be too dashing. She probably smokes cigarets and such like, they said. But Andrew W. Mellon approved her and Mrs. Scranton was elected to succeed the late John Wanamaker's daughter, Mrs. Barclay H. Warburton, whose husband is the new Mayor of Palm Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGNS: Grand Old Party | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...Manhattan-Los Angeles route is only one of many that the Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc., plans to cover by train & plane. For example, a daytime airline will operate between Columbus, Ohio, Chicago, Minneapolis and St. Paul. Not neglected will be Palm Beach, New Orleans, Dallas, San Francisco, Spokane, Denver, Detroit, Cleveland, etc. "I can foresee where we may be using a thousand ships or more within a few years," said Walter Sands Marvin of Hemphill Noyes & Co., one of the 19 directors of Transcontinental Air Transport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Train & Plane | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...miles, 385 yards from the doorstep of the New York Athletic Club, Manhattan, to the City Hall in Long Beach, Long Island. The road lies through the city and over a bridge and through a suburban district crowded with automobiles, trucks, delivery wagons, boys on bicycles, people walking, busses, trolley-cars, and traffic cops. Last week 30 marathoners ran a race along this road and Joie Ray won it. His time was within two minutes of the Olympic record for 26 miles made on a course that had no traffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ray | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...indoor mile record. Last month when he finished third in the Boston marathon (TIME, April 30) his first long distance race, his shoes had to be cut away from his swollen and bleeding feet. Clarence DeMar won at Boston. Ray finished with glazed eyes, a haggard face. At Long Beach, DeMar finishing seventh, was haggard, Ray happy. He kissed his hand to the Mayor as he crossed the finish line. "See those feet" he said in the locker room, crinkling his toes, "no blisters on them, eh boy? No sir. I feel as smooth as silk. Now that I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ray | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

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