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Word: blacking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fourth anniversary of Signor Mussolini's march upon Rome at the head of his black-shirted army. As though sniffing again the heady air of that supreme triumph, II Duce cried, last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tuba Sounded | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...hurricane of wind swept everything before it. ... Through the jet black night only the majestic contour of vast Alagoz, the volcanic mountain with its dome of eternal snow standing out like a beacon on the broad Leninakan Plain, could be perceived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Quake News | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...mandolin should be a "Bohemian" is hard to say. Her mandolin is quiet. All around her, upon the desert and upon her limbs, disposed in sleep, the moon bends its light, and a lion (come down from a hill colder and stonier than the desert) stands with a black shadow on its face, solitary, looking at the traveler with wild, tender eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Maecenas | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...Oliver Lodge, famed spiritist, sound scientist, was besieged but made no public comment on the alleged news from 'Gomaruru" that Martians were seven feet tall, with heavy black hair, slanted eyes, big ears; appetites for tea and tobacco; electric airplanes, gigantic waterpower developments (the "canals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mars | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...more do young hearts melt, as once all young hearts did, at the piteous gaze in the liquid eyes of the fleet and noble steed, Black Beauty. That steed was passed and lost in dust by The Motor Boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Week | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

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