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Word: cots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Amoy, picturesque port of Fukien province, opposite the Japanese island of Formosa, local Chinese merchants expressed themselves as being weary of the boycott engineered by their compatriots. They instituted attempts to lift business from its paralytic cot, to open schools this month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Disorder | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

...this triangle stand a husband, a childhood hero and Corinne Griffith. Since the impression is rapidly spreading that Corinne Griffith is the most beautiful female in the films, there is virtually no point in saying the doings are dull. Watch her head against the pillow of a hospital cot; see her escape from the very jaws of a greedy alligator; follow her through the thunder storm on the convict island. Do all this and be satisfied. The direction of Robert Z. Leonard and the terrible titles will not wholly flatten the effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 29, 1924 | 12/29/1924 | See Source »

Died. George Juison, 47, Negro caretaker of the racing stable of Carl Wiedemann of Newport, Ky., constant companion of the race horse In Memoriam. He was found dead on a cot in the stable. Physicians said: "Heart disease." Juison's friends declare he died of grief over the recent defeat of In Memoriam by Zev (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 3, 1923 | 12/3/1923 | See Source »

Humoresque. Mrs. Sarah Kantor slipped out into the darkness of the ghetto, leaving her husband, one son, and a stray dog asleep in one cot, her daughter in another, and her favorite son whimpering for a violin in another. A few minutes later she reappeared, triumphantly bearing a four-dollar violin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: First Nights | 3/10/1923 | See Source »

...read in an editorial from the Penn State college paper a complaint that new students on arrival were given no other accommodation than a cot on the amory floor. That is considerably better treatment than is accorded a large portion of the students at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "WHERE CAN I GET A ROOM?" | 9/28/1921 | See Source »

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