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Word: burnses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The new locomotive burns oil fuel in a large oil engine which is directly connected with a powerful electric generator ; the latter in turn drives four electric motors. Thus, although the locomotive uses electric power to pull its loads, it needs no third rail or overhead wire, but contains its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New Switch Engine | 6/23/1924 | See Source »

The Shooting of Dan McGrew. Another unconscious burlesque. Robert W. Service's poem, which is alternative to Gunga Din for insistent reciters, has been thrown together on the screen in just the way that might be expected. The Yukon episode, which forms the poem, has been prefaced by incidents in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 16, 1924 | 6/16/1924 | See Source »

Changes within the U. S. are: Edwin Holt Hughes to Chicago. William E. Anderson to Boston. Adna W. Leonard to Buffalo. Wilbur Thirkield to Chattanooga, Tenn. Theodore Henderson to Cincinnati. Matthew W. Clair to Covington, Ky. Ernest L. Waldorf to Kansas City. Frederick T. Keeney to Omaha. Charles E. Locke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In Springfield | 6/9/1924 | See Source »

Secretary of the Navy Wilbur paid a visit to the Shenandoah, now in perfect shape and flying better than ever. He was delighted with his visit. They gave him a good reception at the sta-tion-and a drink of water. When an airship has flown a great distance, she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Drink of Water | 6/9/1924 | See Source »

LATITUDES ? Edwin Muir ? Huebsch ($2.00). A collection of criticisms on criticism, and essays about things and persons literary. Carlyle, Nietzsche, Joyce, Conrad, Burns, Dostoyevski all cataloged, labeled and ready for mounting. You may bristle at times at the author's unguarded superlatives of praise or blame.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Contrast | 5/26/1924 | See Source »

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