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Word: dieses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ten thousand miles travelled in the air, two hundred and fifteen passengers carried, without an accident of any kind, do more than refute the dire predictions of those who foresaw a succession of funerals in the path of the student aviators. It points to a future of invaluable training and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ICARUS VINDICATED | 6/3/1927 | See Source »

Throughout the novel the reader expects Bernard to do something. To the very end there is a feeling that it is a long prologue on a fully set stage. The characters are introduced, the minor ones involve themselves in minor episodes, but nothing much ever happens to the hero. One...

Author: By C. D. Stillman, | Title: BERNARD QUESNAY. By Andre Maurois. Translated by Brian W. Downs. D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1927. $2.00. | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

Christmas presents are hung on a shoetree. Carols are proposed, " 'But don't bring Earl,'" says the laundress. A Princeton co-ed sisbooms "ad Nassaum." Yale sings "Beulah, Beulah." Funnyman Donald Ogden Stewart's technique is borrowed for an interview with Golfer Bobby Jones, aged one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Stomach Hake | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

They do not starve, but with the inspiration of Effie, Victor overcomes tremendous hardships and makes the ranch go. The worst misfortune they suffer is the ostracism of the frontier community, because for some reason which is not made clear the two outcasts have not bothered to marry. In the...

Author: By A. T. Robertson jr., | Title: SPEAK TO THE EARTH. By Sarah Comstock, Doubleday, Page and Commany, New York. 1927. $2.00. | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

At the fierce battle of San Juan Hill, Van Brunt carries his wounded comrade safely to the hospital tent, where Bert surrenders Mary's U. S. flag to his more fortunate rival before he dies. But it was Bert whose hysteria in rushing upon the enemy without orders, precipitated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Mar. 28, 1927 | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

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