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Word: beneath (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beneath the windows of the President's schoolroom office in Rapid City, 250 members of the South Dakota Women's Christian Temperance Union prayed for Calvin Coolidge's continuance in office, for the upholding of the Constitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Aug. 22, 1927 | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

...Gilzean roundly said that Sir Harry Lauder has not only debased and vulgarized the songs of his country; but that "he portrays a type of Scotchman not found in the heavens above, on the earth beneath, or in waters under the earth." Waxing emphatic, Councilman Gilzean cried: "If that type of Scotchman ever went about Scotland in the flesh, we would pack him off to an asylum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sir Harry Flayed | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

Their earth inductor compass had fits of running wild, their radio had become disabled, they were fast running out of gasoline-when suddenly at 3 a. m. they saw the sea-coast and the flicker of a lighthouse beacon beneath them. That was the moment when Commander Byrd scribbled: "We are going to land." It was safer to drop into the sea than to crash into unyielding, un known, fog-blanketed land, he decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Four Men in a Fog | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

...hour] with no stunts and no races against time. . . . There is no comparison between the comfort of traveling by airplane and traveling by railroad. Our passengers will sit in comfortable chairs. They can get up and walk around. From their seats they can survey the country rolling past beneath them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Passenger Airlines | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

...These do not include the expeditions of scientists who dig beneath the earth's surface for lost cities, tombs, treasures, fossils, jaw bones of ancient men and animals. Diggers' recent doings will be summarized in another issue of TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Expeditions: Jun. 6, 1927 | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

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