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Word: beneath (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among vanishing Sunday morning pastimes is that of "working on the car." No blue law, but increasing familiarity with cars and extension of garage service, have brought the motor owner out from beneath his crankcase to stand and watch or sit at home waiting while a garage man fills the grease cups, tightens nuts, adjusts brakes, oils squeaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Better Garages | 2/15/1926 | See Source »

...year administration. His personality has had a compelling and retentive effect upon the alumni, who are now organized and have assisted in the establishment of scholarships and an endowment fund. Tall and angular of frame, sandy-haired and lantern-jawed, he has the mien of an old school schoolman, beneath which lie the combined capacities of militant churchman, practical moralist and sagacious promoter. He is a familiar figure not only on his school grounds but in the colleges and offices of his old boys, with whom he keeps in closest touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Schooling | 2/8/1926 | See Source »

...king. He was loathe also to discredit all the theories of Herodotus and so he set his assistants to work on the edge of the rock platform. The hundred native laborers were made to clean off thousands of tons of sand and debris which were thrown into the valley beneath. Then the trained archaeologists were put to a minute clearing of the naked rock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWS OF IMPORTANT TREASURES IN NILE VALLEY EVADES PRESS CENSOR | 2/2/1926 | See Source »

Last week, however, a youth whose face shone clean and pleasant beneath his black skullcap, said something just as Joe was opening the cash-drawer to "oblige" him. The youth said: "I'm John D, Rockefeller III. I. . . ." Sock! went the cash-drawer, tight shut. Joe wiped a glass on his spotted apron. The freshman stammered, expostulated. Finally Joe spoke. "Nutting doing," he said around his cigar-stub. "A guy worked dat on me last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Feb. 1, 1926 | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

...When marrow chills beneath the driving sleet

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STRAIN OF MIDYEARS HITS MT. AUBURN ST. | 1/29/1926 | See Source »

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