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Word: bedfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...protect from floods the inhabitants of California's Imperial Valley, which is below the Colorado's bed-level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Boulder Dam | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

Revolutionary soldiers drag their commander, Li Yuan-hung out from under his wife's bed. The year is 1911. Li protests. He is loyal to the Manchu Emperor. No! He will not lead the soldiers as a unit in the great revolution!! But then, on second thought, he does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Death of Li | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...minutes before noon the Friendship swooped down into Halifax harbor, Nova Scotia. Her crew went to a hotel and early to bed. Miss Earhart refused to tell newsgatherers what kind of powder she used. Up early they were, and again eastward, only to land at Trepassey, Newfoundland, to fix a slight leak in the gasoline tank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Eastward | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...consisted of more than sympathy, the professor trudged through the fog, down by the river, and home again by the rustic bridge. At the gate a servant awaited him eagerly to say that Lorie had cried buckets and was "all broke up," because she had had to go to bed, leaving Hergesell at the party with his blonde. The professor rushes to his darling, comforts her in vain. He alone understood that the blonde had every right to dance on with Hergesell, while Lorie had quite rightly been permitted to dance only once, and that once only in sport. "Lorie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pervading Sadness | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...seems to have murdered a very dear gentleman friend (TIME, Oct. 3). THE SILENT HOUSE-A Chinaman sharpens his chopsticks (TIME, Feb. 20). THE SCARLET Fox-Willard Mack gets his man (TIME, April 9). DIAMOND LIL-Mae West in a place which, to judge by the shape of her bed, must be a swan-dive (TIME, April 23). FUNNY BURLESQUE-The vicissitudes of vaudeville votaries (TIME, Sept. 12). THE BACHELOR FATHER-Natural children in velvet gloves, or father's day at the foundling's home (TIME, March 12). VOLPONE-Ben Jonson's farce about a miser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Jun. 4, 1928 | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

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