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Word: beacons (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock (or at conclusion of game)--March out main gate, up Speedway, to Cambridge Street, thence to Beacon Park railroad yards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DAY OF ACTIVITY IN STORE FOR VISITING CADET CORPS | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

...clock--March via Huntington Avenue, Dartmouth and Beacon Streets, entering Boston Common at Charles Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DAY OF ACTIVITY IN STORE FOR VISITING CADET CORPS | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

Modern and Beacon-"Uncle Tom's Cabin"-This caused a war 68 years ago. There's no telling what may happen with movietones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 9/21/1928 | See Source »

...Castle Island, Panama, Lighthouse-keeper Hanna navigated a small boat flying the British ensign upside-down (sign of distress). Attacked by tooth and stomach aches, he had deserted his beacon, after swallowing all the medicine therein. The steamer Lilian Luckenbach sighted him, gave him ten pounds of assorted drugs. Thus medicated, Hanna resumed his post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sep. 3, 1928 | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...inhabitants have never before seen a white man. Dr. Lloyd behaves; the natives make a man of him. A chaste love springs up between him and Fayaway (Raquel Torres), village virgin, daughter of the chief. After they are married, Dr. Lloyd becomes greedy for native pearls. He lights a beacon, hoping to attract a passing ship to help him loot the village. Then he repents, but dastardly Pearl Trader Sebastian has seen the beacon. Sebastian and his crew ravage the island, leaving behind them the white men's shadows-lust, liquor, disease, greed. Dr. Lloyd is killed while trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 13, 1928 | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

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