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Word: bells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feel the animal in us. we want to hide in the earth. An uncertain red glow spreads along the skyline before us. Great heavies boom like an organ. Smaller shells howl, pipe, hiss. Searchlights sweep the dark sky, halt, quiver on a black insect? the airman. He falls. A bell rings?Gas! I remember the gas patients coughing out their burnt lungs in clots. I don my mask. Like a big, soft jellyfish the gas floats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Horror of the World | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

Managers--H. H. Johnston '29, R. F. W. Smith '30, P. H. Clark '30, R. L. Scott '31. Waiters--David Shaw '29, F. S. Holmes '31, W. M. Rainbolt ocC., W. M. Dunn '30, Richard Kimball '31, M. L. Bell '30. Launch drivers--Fiske Rawlins '30, Arthur Sims. Rigger--Edgar Dennison. Boat builder--William Lutz. Retainers--B. S. Clark, John Simpson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CREW CARAVAN DEPARTS FOR RED TOP QUARTERS | 6/1/1929 | See Source »

...largest hat ever made was a special order from a Ringling Brothers Giant, who weighed 480 pounds and took an 8⅞. There is not much variation in straw hat styles, straws of the present (delayed) season tending toward a narrowed brim and a slightly bell-shaped crown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Hats & Hatters | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...next cross-country flight will take place this week when Moon and R. B. Bell '30, former president, will fly the plane to New Bedford and the Cape...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT OF FLYING CLUB ANNOUNCES PLANS | 5/23/1929 | See Source »

...couple who are warming bed. Drushka puts stall as screen before bed. Bride and groom enter bed. Erotic exaltation of all company. The shadows grow darker. The whole company is immobile as if transfixed. Father of bride sings the final magnificently eloquent phrase, interrupted at irregular intervals by bell-like crashes from the orchestra." Friend or foe, none can deny Stravinsky's fame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Les Noces | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

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