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Word: cutters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thomas Long, American whaler, cruised along the island in 1867, but its real discovery came in 1881, when the U. S. revenue cutter Corwin landed a search party, built a cairn, raised the American flag, made formal claim to the island in the name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Man's Land? | 8/13/1923 | See Source »

Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin: " Because I wore a blue sack suit, primrose-colored waistcoat, shabby soft gray hat and loose gloves to the Eton-Harrow cricket match, Tailor and Cutter pronounced me a ' sartorial weed' - that is, ' suburban.' Lloyd George, the Earl of Balfour and Lord Robert Cecil have been similarly rebuked by this periodical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: Jul. 30, 1923 | 7/30/1923 | See Source »

...power boat Napeague ran into New York Harbor flying red flags at bow and stern. A coast guard cutter approached and the Captain of the Napeague shouted: "Keep away from us. We are loaded with dynamite ! " But the coast guards boarded the Napeague and found 1,600 cases of whiskey under her tarpaulins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dynamite | 5/5/1923 | See Source »

...league (of three miles) in the days of sailing ships, when that was considered a sufficient margin of safety to allow for the apprehension of smugglers. There is, therefore, much to be said in favor of its extension, even though the mile of " hot pursuit" allows a revenue cutter to go more than a league from shore to apprehend a bootlegger caught openhanded. But the State Department has apparently taken the sound position that it is not for the United States, alone and of its own initiation, to effect a change in international law, whatever changes there may have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Three Mile Limit | 5/5/1923 | See Source »

...bootleggers, angry at the high prices charged for Scotch and rye, sometimes turn pirate, board a small ship and steal the alcoholic cargo. A raid or two like this and the Rum Fleet decided that a bootlegger's motorboat was no more to be trusted than a revenue cutter. Hence the display of guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Armed Against 'Leggers | 3/17/1923 | See Source »

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