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Word: bended (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before the final dash back to the boathouse, the four crews lined up at the first bend of the river with Crew A, composed largely of Sophomores, having a length start. The distance to be covered being less than a half mile, the strokes raised the beat to sprinting speed and kept it there all the way to the boat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CREW D LEADS AT FINISH OF CHARLES RIVER RACE | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...shuffling peasants must have been a strong reminder that if the House of Bratiano had ever permitted a fair election to be held in Rumania during the past decade, it would certainly have been swept out of power by the peasant party. Faced by such facts would Vintila Bratiano bend now or break later? The peasants munched their rations, waited patiently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Peasant March | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...Night Flyer. Speedy, thrilling is this picture of how the mail train raced to Medicine Bend. Director James Cruze routed from the round house the engines of pioneer railroad days as a setting for a story as primitive as that of Casey Jones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 26, 1928 | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...McCullough) an engineer. Both loved snub-nosed Kate (Jobyna Ralston) daughter of the lunch room lady. Jim warns Bat to go slowly round the curve. Bat speeds up, skids, smashes into the ditch. Unhurt, Jim fires up old Engine No. 99, hauls on the mail bags, rushes to Medicine Bend on time, winning the contract and Kate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 26, 1928 | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

Prosecutor Remy, aged 35, now has Indiana's crows in the palm of his hand. Jailbird Stephenson, vexed because friends have neglected to bend his bars, has turned over to Prosecutor Remy a large black box containing many Indiana secrets. One-time Governor McCray, now out of the penitentiary, wishing to re-establish a reputation as a gentleman-farmer and honest man, has announced his willingness to tell everything. Should Governor Jackson be hustled off to jail, people are wondering what kind of a governor Prosecutor Remy would make. Some also wonder whether he could end the Senatorial career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Indiana | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

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