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Word: boated (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Near Detour, Mich., the ore boat William B. Pilkey, wedged helplessly on a reef, was heaved and pummeled by the storming surf of Autumn's first bad storm. Desperate Coast-Guardsmen rescued her crew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Lake Boats | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...Where are the presents?" he demanded as soon as he was back in the palace. "Where is my tug-boat?" Most successful of last year's real birthday presents was a minutely perfect scale model of a locomotive and train which cost $1,100. the gift of the Rasitza Locomotive Works. This year King Mihai has been asking for an equally elaborate tug boat, complete with miniature barges. But there was no such gift last week. No barge company had felt the urge. Tactfully His Majesty's mother, frugal Princess Helen, explained that he would receive presents from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: King Gleamlet | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...Mary Garden, Chicago's "Our Mary," got off a boat in Manhattan last week. She said: "I weigh 120 pounds when I'm before the public and when I'm not it's nobody's business." She did not hurry out to Chicago for the great opening night, having contracted to sing in Philadelphia and Manhattan first. Her latest enthusiasm is one of Mr. Insull's "office boys," a young man named Hamilton Forrest who, unbeknownst to Mr. Insull, composed an opera and threw himself, as many other youths have done but without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Chicago | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Herr Kreuger is a rather slight man with a large, somewhat bald head, a high forehead and prominent cheekbones. He is a great admirer of Cecil Rhodes and Dr. Jameson. He would rather be called engineer than chief or president. He has a motor boat, three yachts, six or seven homes, but has no particular hobbies, seldom accepts invitations to dinner, and even in Stockholm has become rather a legendary figure. Over the door of his office is a carved torch. In addition to his office, he has also a silent room, to which only he and the janitor have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Monopolist | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...first debate of the year will be with the New Jersey Law School at Newark, New Jersey, on Friday, November 8, the week-end of the Michigan game. The team will leave Cambridge on Friday, debate that evening, spend the next day in New York City, and return by boat on Sunday night. All expenses of team members will be paid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COUNCIL WILL PICK MEN FOR DEBATING TEAMS | 10/23/1929 | See Source »

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