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Word: coppers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...twelve years. Her thick-set body with its short limbs supported a massive misshapen head. The forehead indeed, was clear and candid, the eyes quick and shrewd, penetrating and sagacious; but below the small flat nose an apelike mouth thrust forward its enormous jaws and pendulous underlip. Her copper-colored hair was coarse, wiry and dull, her skin patchy and of a dull greyish pallor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Dancer's Life | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

With the institutes of the steel, oil, leather, textile, copper and other industries before them as examples, executives of U. S. sugar refining companies, and their lawyers, met in Manhattan last week and decided to form a similar institute for the sugar industry. Whether producers, shippers and distributors of sugar would be admitted to the institute, the refiners did not decide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Sugar Institute | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

Commenting on the success of the project Mr. Morse made this statement. "At first Harvard had planned that if 300 dozen dishes could be sold, the preliminary expense of making copper plates and sketches could be covered, but sales have run so far in excess of this estimate that the profits will pay for Harvard's own equipment of plates and perhaps more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: XMAS BIBLIOPHILIA IS FEATURED AT WIDENER | 12/13/1927 | See Source »

...Italian Ambassador, Signer Nobile Giacomo de Martino, with 60 countrymen, members of the Vatican Choir. The latter presented the President first with a collection of copper engravings of Vatican paintings, encased in tooled leather; second, with singing at the White House steps. Mrs. Coolidge listened from an upper window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Dec. 12, 1927 | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...Crusader William Eugene ("pussyfoot") Johnson near Smithville Flats, N. Y. So thought some shrewd person. Last week, in the clump of trees in the field behind the barn of Crusader Johnson-who visits his farm only in the summer-State troopers found vats, stoves, coils and 14 copper boilers to contain 200 gallons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: While Cat's Away | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

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