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Word: cat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thomas Cochran, partner in J. P. Morgan & Co., arrived last week on the swift Mauretania. Reporters wasted no time in cornering him. Said he: "I have a statement ready. It is six words long. Take it down carefully. 'A singed cat dreads the fire.' That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comings & Goings: Oct. 1, 1928 | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

Tsar Boris of Bulgaria perhaps did not hear, at Sofia, last week, that his father, the abdicated Tsar Ferdinand, was seen in Vienna to chase a black cat with oaths out of his hotel bedroom. Other guests testified that Ferdinand, barefoot, clad in nightshirt, pursued cat down corridor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tsar v. Cat | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

Ferdinand is a royal mystic, supposed by superstitious Bulgarian peasants to possess occult powers. Presumably the Mystic Tsar had quarreled with his Black Cat, or someone's else cat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tsar v. Cat | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

Eight times Babette l'Alpiniste (a cat) is known to have scaled the Blümlisalphorn (12,044 feet), accompanying parties of climbing humans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: Babette & Bobby | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...Packard engines. The top speed of the Los Angeles is 70 m. p. h. and she has made a non-stop journey of 5,060 miles. She carries a crew of 45; but she is capable of carrying 100 passengers, who can stroll her length (656 feet) in "cat walks" built inside her envelope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Rigid Airships | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

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