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Word: dogged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge shook hands with Lux, gigantic police dog of blind Senator Thomas David Schall of Minnesota. He was the first man, excepting Lux's master, to perform such a feat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Dec. 24, 1928 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

Dapper gentlemen with quick eyes and imperturbable faces frequent, or used to frequent, a little restaurant at 50th Street and Broadway, Manhattan. They are gentlemen with varied interests-dog and horse racing, realty, baseball, politics, lady friends, perhaps a side line now and then in narcotics or stolen securities. They are, or were, interested in almost anything involving money in sums of ten to a hundred "grand" (thousand dollars), and some stimulating element of risk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Room 349 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

Radio-Victor. The little dog in Victor Talking Machine Co.'s trademark last week heard the Voice of a new Master. For, in confirmation of months of rumor, there was announced the merger of Victor Talking Machine with Radio Corp. of America. The day before the merger was definitely announced, Radio stock rose 42 points, Victor 19¼. Gross income of Radio for 1927 was $65,082,074; gross sales of Victor were $46,886,842, thus making the business of the merged companies about $112,000,000 annually. Plans provide for a complete merger of the two companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mergers: Dec. 24, 1928 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

Harvard need not fear the besmirching of her name either by the actions of an infinitesimal minority or by external maledictions, and certainly not from this lonely testimony against her. Like the man who bites a dog, student actions, particularly careless ones, receive ridiculous publicity in comparison to the actions of other men. This latest undesirable criticism, neither unbiased nor constructive, is easily recognizable as more evidence of the readiness of Boston and Cambridge to betray their latent antagonism in a town-and-gown alignment which is marked most distinctly on occasions like the present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHO THREW THAT BRICK? | 12/20/1928 | See Source »

...Byrd Expedition during its 18 months on the continent will make thorough explorations within the range of its two planes and of its several dog teams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: On to the South Pole | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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