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Word: comeing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cause of this magisterial to do had come two days before when at Pathe Co.'s Manhattan film studio a surge of flame swashed across the wooden roof, turned the barnlike building into a man broiler. Within a half-hour ten crushed, charred bodies, including four pretty girls, were laid out on the street below a blackened sign: PATHE TALKING COMEDIES MAKE THE WHOLE WORLD LAUGH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Pathetique | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...maintain a ponderous delitescence, are the British editors of Jane's Fighting Ships. They preface their pages of photographs, statistics and "recognition silhouettes" of the world's warships with a brief foreword reviewing the year's progress in warship building, the outlook for the year to come. Chief comments: "It is difficult to imagine that present proposals for the abolition of the submarine have any chance of success." "The 10,000-ton Washington treaty type of cruiser will prove of very doubtful value for future naval operations. . . . New type vessels are under construction which tend to throw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bluebloods & Battleships | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...shopping for steel usually also have to go shopping for cement. Last week United States Steel Corp. offered to exchange some $31,000,000 of its stock for Atlas Portland Cement Co. which produces 19,000,000 barrels a year. Other cement companies realized that from the combination will come potent competition, but also potent support of a higher cement tariff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Business Notes, Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Last week through the bare boles of the trees, past the stocky, red-brick buildings of Pomfret School, a sombre hearse made its way. As it must to all men, Death had come to Headmaster William Beach Olmsted, whom Pomfret boys have affectionately, awesomely known as "Mr. O" for 32 years. Pomfret boys knew that he was not leaving the school as he had found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mr. O | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Coach Arnold Horween '20, has come on from Chicago to be present at this festival, and it is possible that at some time during the evening he will announce his list of assistant coaches for next year. In addition, V. M. Harding '31, who has just been released from Stillman Infirmary, will be present. After the banquet, he will leave for Arizona where he will recuperate till next September...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOTBALL TEAM FETED AT DINNER BY HARVARD CLUB | 12/19/1929 | See Source »

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