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Word: crows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Before her stretched a season of snooping af-ter icebergs. On April 15 she, or her alternate iceberg scout, the Modoc, will heave to at latitude 41° 46' north, longitude 50° 14' west. Her crew, except for the ever present watch in crow's-nest and bridge, will fire three volleys, will moan "taps" in lament for the sinking of the Titanic on that spot 14 years before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Iceberg Hunt | 4/5/1926 | See Source »

...telegram from some Fisk undergraduates asking him please to investigate "the situation" (TIME, Feb. 16, 1925, et ante). This latter was created by Dr. Fayette Avery McKenzie, then President of Fisk. The students were striking-indeed 150 resigned and decamped-because of Dr. McKenzie's alleged "Jim Crow" methods: allowing a Negro bishop to be insulted, segregating audiences at college concerts, banning mixed dancing, silk stockings, decollete gowns, leading Fisk entertainers into a white men's club by the kitchen door. The students were striking and they were demanding a new president, a black president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: President Jones | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

...Fascist organ L'Impero cried: "The Mussolini-Stresemann tilt was a dialog between an Eagle and a Crow?an encounter between Rapier and Paunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Tyrolese Dynamite | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

Came an alarmed cry from the crow's-nest : "Breakers, breakers ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atlantis? | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

...musicians found a pause in the score, laid down their instruments, stood applauding with the audience. A brilliant singer whose voice is still exquisite, an accomplished actor, he is beloved by his fellow singers and worshiped by the bravo-yelling denizens of the Metropolitan's crow's nest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tenors | 4/6/1925 | See Source »

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