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Word: crowdedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Old uns," widows between the ages of 65 and 70, crowded into British branch post offices, last week, in piteous, hopeful, halting ranks, numbering some 450,000. Sympathetic post people registered the widows' names and proofs of age and widowhood in mossy ledgers. Then to each bona fide applicant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dole | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

"A World on Wheels" in 1879, in this case two wheels instead of the present day four, views the approach of the time when highways will be filled with riders, just as now illustrators present a sky crowded with man-made birds. A striking prophecy is contained in the engraving...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editions of Three-Quarters of a Century Ago Reveal Striking Prophecies--English Comic Shown in Widener | 1/4/1928 | See Source »

In Detroit a school teacher put by her pointer and her students' papers. Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh dressed herself warmly and was swept southward by the propeller windstorm of a sturdy trimotored Ford monoplane. One night she spent in St. Louis. The next day as her famed offspring in Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Lindbergh | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

Tod. Max Reinhardt, German, continued to reveal his repertory at the massive Century Theatre. Again he showed himself the magic master of mass formations on the stage. The crowded fury of tattered Paris in the Revolution came clamoring to life as Danton was tried before the Revolutionary Tribunal which he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 2, 1928 | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

The genius back of it all was Vladimir Rosing, who five years ago was no more than a good tenor. He was returning then to Europe after engagements in the U. S. and in the crossing he met George Eastman, rich kodakman of Rochester, N. Y. There were many hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: American Opera | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

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