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Word: coasted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...looks something like a sunfish, but in all probability it belongs to the family Bramidae, genus Brama," said one of Dr. Barbour's assistants. "Little is known of the fish, only two that resemble it in any way at all have been found on the whole Atlantic coast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strange Fish Puzzles Experts at Museum of Comparative Zoology--Is Like Sunfish but Probably One of Bramidae | 1/19/1928 | See Source »

...their endeavor to locate the fish's family, records of all the fish caught from the time that America was first settled until the present were consulted, but with little result. A fish that somewhat resembles the one now in the museum was caught off the coast of Cuba several years ago, and another was found off the coast of California...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strange Fish Puzzles Experts at Museum of Comparative Zoology--Is Like Sunfish but Probably One of Bramidae | 1/19/1928 | See Source »

...first of these monuments would become apparent so soon as the Presidential train reached the rails of the Florida East Coast R. R. and started passing through resorts, glistening with opulence, which Henry M. Flagler's railroad and hotels first started booming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: To Cuba | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

...fail to point out to President Coolidge the 15½-million-dollar pleasure park projected near Havana by the U. S. Biltmore interests (John McEntee Bowman, chief); the 706-mile highway which Cuba is building from Pinar del Rio on the west to Santiago de Cuba on the southeast coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: To Cuba | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

...believe, last week, a pleasant story illustrative of her undoubted goodness of heart. It is told that, prior to the birth of the bambino Romano Mussolini (TIME, Oct. 10), she learned how intolerable was the lot of some 600 antiFascists then exiled upon blistering, volcanic islands off the coast of Sicily. Acutely sensible of the sufferings of others, she was moved to intercede with the Signor Benito Mussolini. Soon it became known that some at least of the 600 exiles would be released. Last week a round, generous 300 were allowed to return to their homes. Among them were seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Signora Bene | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

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