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Word: cut (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ship, once wintered, here Francesco Querini heroically lost his life in the Cegni polar expedition of 1909, here in loyal commemoration Nobile dropped a symbol of St. Mark upon the ice. Low over the ice flew the Italia, through a dense fog, into a head wind, its speed cut to 40 miles, ice forming on its sides. Gradually the air cleared, visibility improved. Lenin Land, discovered by the Russians 15 years ago, was the next objective. General Nobile hoped to land a scientific party on Lenin Land but so thick was the falling snow, so menacing the cold and dreary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Polar Pilgrims: May 28, 1928 | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

Died. Thomas Henry ("Old Tom") Tibbles, 87, famed Civil War fighter, circuit rider and onetime (1904) candidate for the vice presidency of the U. S.; at Omaha, Neb. Hanged before he was 16 by members of Raider Quantrill's band, he was cut down by friends, lived to fight with John Brown, to edit the Omaha World-Herald, to marry three wives, one of them Princess Bright Eyes, original of Longfellow's Minnehaha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 28, 1928 | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

America might have been spared an anachronism if the college comic had either cut collegiatism from its pages in the beginning, or let fly the first stones where they would have done the most good. Now it is too late. While the death struggle goes into its last horrible stages one is struck less by the pathos of it all, than by its inherent hopelessness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAST LAUGH | 5/24/1928 | See Source »

...York, trusted Administration man, it looked as though President Coolidge's ever-quick solicitude for the financial condition of the Government might have transcended the advisory and become legislative. At least, the President took note of the Snell announcement and warned Congress that there might be no tax cut if care were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Stop, Look, Listen | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...tree sucks up the dye. On the third day afterward the leaves begin to turn pink, violet, blue, red; the wood becomes tinted. After two weeks the leaves fall off, to grow out desirably colored the next year, according to Herr Behr. The wood however can be immediately cut, polished, prepared for futuristic furniture and novelties. The dye brings out the grain, shows off the polish, lasts as long as the wood. For more conservative households beeches can turn to rosewood; yellow birches masquerade as mahogany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Devices | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

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