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Word: brooklyn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Annulment Sought. By Ottillie Gobel Reed, onetime wife of the famed "Sausage King"; from Sigwart John Reed, architect; at Brooklyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 23, 1926 | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

...upheaval smote him. Who is this "Communist" Weisbord who has become "the hero of 16,000 inarticulate but devoted followers, and the devil of most of the respectable element?" He is only 26; frail, nervous, bespectacled, a well-above-the-average college Jew and radical intellectual. In Manhattan and Brooklyn he had once plied the trades of newsboy, grocery clerk, clothing factory worker, soda jerker. C. C. N. Y. taught him letters, gave him a Phi Beta Kappa key; Harvard schooled him in law. Said he, "But I never intended to practice. I only studied law so as to better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Thirty Weeks | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

...women meeting separately for this purpose, previous to the celebration of the Lord's Supper, when they meet together. (4) According to the Gospel, immersion is the only proper form of baptism. Carlyle B. Waynes, militant Seventh Day Adventist, stated his creed with eloquence, in Brooklyn last week: "Doctrinally, Seventh Day Adventists are among the strongest evangelical Christians-fundamentalists of the fundamentalists . . . . The historic faith of the church is our faith, Christ the divine One, Christ the miracle worker, Christ the sacrifice for sins, Christ dead, Christ risen, Christ ascended, Christ our present high priest, Christ our present life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Seventh Day Adventists | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

...seemed to her that, even if he was up against long Will Tilden in the final of the Metropolitan grass court championship, her blond, child-faced young husband might have remembered to get her some keepsake. On the way out to the Crescent Athletic Club courts in Brooklyn, she told him as much, calmly but with frigid point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: Aug. 9, 1926 | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

Died. Colonel Washington Augustus Roebling, 89, Civil War hero, who monumentalized the profession of his father by building the Brooklyn Bridge; at his home in Trenton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 2, 1926 | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

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