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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beak will hold more than his belican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Experiment | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

...Winsted, Conn., famed as a home of strange events, one Charles Alling beheld a large crane caught by the foot in a wire fence, went to save the pitiable fowl. The crane drove his beak into Alling's left eye, ", permanently blinded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: May 25, 1925 | 5/25/1925 | See Source »

...blot was spreading through the figures. "Look out of the window, Eliphalet," said Parton. Pushing back the shutters, Greer saw a tall ship treading in and out of the wind at the harbor's mouth-a clipper with raked masts and a forefoot like a seabird's beak, waiting there with all sails set, delicate and trim. "Niggers," said Parton; and he told how he had brought his ship full of black men to show the people o!' Portsmouth that Merchant Greer was a "Nigger-trader." Eliphalet Greer put on his beaver hat. He turned from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Proud Rogues* | 4/6/1925 | See Source »

Some time ago, the Becco Giallo (Yellow Beak), a weekly political paper of Rome, was suppressed for being unkind to Mussolini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cautions | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

...chief lacerators were Harry Greb, untiring Pittsburgh dervish, and Ted Moore, British challenger for Greb's world's middleweight boxing title. Moore's "beak"* and "button"? afforded the champion 15 rounds of target practice with few interruptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milk Fund | 7/7/1924 | See Source »

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