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Word: blackness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went back to regular service. The sum of $15,000 was saved. These White House horses which nobody rode were quartered in the Army quartermaster stables at 19th Street and Virginia Avenue, N. W. In 1924 Calvin Coolidge, in a plain business suit and panama hat, once mounted a black charger named General, cantered through Potomac Park, was duly photographed for the campaign. Never again did he use a live horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Telephone | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...party formed a circle, with one man in the centre as "It." A heavy medicine ball was thrown around the circle until "It" could touch it. President Hoover has now imported this game into the rear grounds of the White House where at 7 a. m. in a large black sweater and grey flannel trousers he plays it with his friends for half an hour. Bulls-in-the-ring have been : Justice Stone of the Supreme Court, Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, Newswriter Mark Sullivan, Presidential Physician Boone, Detective Secretary Richey. The playground is sheltered from public gaze by thick shrubbery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Telephone | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Spring snow-lay spread over North Dakota's black prairies like thick, grey sauce. It hugged the buttes and ran melting off the gables of crouton-like barns. Hay and wheat farmers around Bismarck, North Dakota's capital*, slouched to their chores. Horses rubbed restlessly against their stalls. Spring was coming to North Dakota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Bombers Sunned | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...Radio-activity", Professor Black, Physical laboratory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/4/1929 | See Source »

...Radio-activity", Professor Black, Physical laboratory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/3/1929 | See Source »

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