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Word: carly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Correspondent Larry Rue spent an entire week covering the Albania-Jugoslav frontier from Greece to the Adriatic for the Chicago Tribune. His motor car, he cabled, was the first through the mile- high, snow-covered uplands since December. A broken connecting rod meant getting another car, and friendly peasants shoveled much snow and pushed often and mightily. "I visited every garrison, outpost and supply depot," cabled thoroughgoing Correspondent Rue, concluding that in his opinion the Jugoslavs were emphatically not mobilized last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALBANIA: Piratical Dictature | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...North Shore Golf and Tennis Club has offered its privileges to Harvard undergraduates, the H. A. A. announced last night. The Club, formerly the Salem Golf Club, is just outside of Salem on the Salem-Danvers car line, less than 20 miles from Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOLF CLUB PRIVILEGES EXTENDED TO HARVARD | 4/9/1927 | See Source »

...student car rule goes it seems logical to suppose that it is only a temporary measure. There surely can be nothing permanent about something that strikes at an extreme and unthinking minority through the entire student body. It is reasonable to suppose that there cannot be universal penalties for local offenses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 4/9/1927 | See Source »

...student car rule is judicious, fair, and the only alternative time will show it to be such. If it is not, the presumption of trust in the administrators is in favor of the proposition that they will admit they are wrong if they are wrong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 4/9/1927 | See Source »

...Brooklyn freight yard a priest gave extreme unction to Brakeman Richard O'Connell. He lay caught between a derailed switch engine and a 70-ton freight car. A wheel of the car held one foot; the other was wedged in the engine pilot board. If the engine backed away, he would be ripped as men rip legs off bullfrogs. If the car rolled towards him, he would be grated over the bars of the cowcatcher. So he sprawled there, content with the priest's ministrations, hopeful that the rescuing railroad men who were jacking the car...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Brakeman | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

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