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Word: bellsing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every U. S. schoolboy knows about the fight in Hampton Roads between the Monitor and the Merrimac, and about the naval battle in Mobile Bay, when Farragut said, "Damn the torpedoes! Jouett, full speed! Four bells, Captain Drayton!" But many a schoolboy's parents may have forgotten how one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sailor | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

"The only sound that really counts is the clang of shovels and cash register bells. . . "

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Good Old Word | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Hushed and solemn was the Senate chamber when the final Vare vote came. In the gallery sat William Bauchop Wilson, onetime (1913-21) Secretary of Labor Democratic contestant for the Vare seat. . . . . Before the roll call was finished, Vare was hobbling out of the room. Blind Senator Schall of Minnesota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Senator-Reject | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Five minutes to noon. Massed along the pavements of London's Ludgate Hill last week and down the Strand were thousands of excited school children, cynical salesladies, brokers, clerks. Noon. Bow Bells, all the bells of London, clanged in tingling cacophony. An escort of mounted police clattered up the empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pomp After Brass | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

(2 of 2) Philip K. he named a gum, "P. K's.," to share the fame of other Wrigley products, "Spearmint," "Doublemint," "Juicy Fruit." He still keeps in close touch with his business and when in Chicago eats lunch in the restaurant on the main floor of the white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: World Series | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

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