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Word: cut (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cut the liver into slices half an inch thick, and sprinkle each slice with the mixture of bread crumbs, mushrooms and seasonings; put in a casserole, pour over it one-half pint of cold water or good soup stock, and bake in a slow oven for three quarters of an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Liver Recipes | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...persons own the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. As stockholders, they have been delightfully anxious for six months. So have brokers in Wall Street. The company in six months has earned much money. Wherever two or three traders have been gathered together it has been whispered that the company would "cut a melon," market jargon for an increased dividend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: No Telephone Melon | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...brief, Mrs. Holmes' gloomiest prophesies prove true, the leopardess cannot change her spots, matters go from bad to worse in the Holmes household and Mrs. Alf begins to cut fancy capers once more, until expelled from the household by the returning Mrs. Holmes

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/26/1927 | See Source »

...There was battle, and the happy Staggerbears are no more, for the Guzzlenots uprooted the foamcups and fizzbells, cut down the eggnog vines and poisoned the happy little brandy bees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Staggerbear & Guzzlenot | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

Meanwhile, The American Girl bucked storms. Flying high, flying low, sleet and wind cut into her. Once Miss Elder, unafraid, climber out onto the tail of the ship to balance it. In perilous spells she relieved her co-pilot at the levers. Two thirds of the way across, they veered still further south of their course to avoid a low pressure storm area. Then the oil presure fell. Part of the gasoline supply had been dumped to lighten the ship in its fight against the storm. They knew that their time was short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Wingless Victory | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

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