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Word: buts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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. . . TIME'S sport-writer said that three breaks were converted into three touchdowns (TIME, Nov. 18). But here's how Wisconsin's second score was made. Chicago, in the second quarter, punted over the goalline. Rus Rebholtz took the ball on the 20 yard line, slipped through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

You were first to print my poem, The Long Night Ride of William Dawes, and now I am sending an original Indian poem. I am one-eighth Ottawa and the only Indian poet that I know of at the present time. By the Ottawas I am called "Little Crane." They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

From the far field of a war that was never a war returned to the U. S. last week 75 warriors?each in a flag-draped wooden box. Twenty-nine of them were nameless. Icy cold blew the dawn wind as the S. S. President Roosevelt churned slowly up New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Home from War | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

No declaration of war by Congress authorized U. S. participation in the sorry North Russia expedition, which began in the summer of 1918. President Wilson consented on his own responsibility to the use of U. S. troops on this remote frontier. The original Allied purpose was to offer a new...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Home from War | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Prime enforcer of Prohibition is Commissioner James M. Doran. Proudly his wife tells friends that she "brings up the reinforcements." Last week she marshaled a platoon of reinforcements in the form of recipes for nonalcoholic cocktails. She had prepared a Book of Juices to meet the onslaught of the "winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Mrs. Doran's Drinks | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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