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Word: dogged (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Montpelier, capital of Vermont, near the junction of the Dog and Steven Rivers with the Winooski was one of the places hardest hit. Nearly 40 feet of water entered the city. First reports said 200 had died there. This figure proved 199 too large but entire blocks of Montpelier were destroyed around the foot of Capitol Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: New England Flood | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...organized state or city crime commissions in the U. S. Twenty-six such bodies sent delegates to the gathering last week. Largely through the efforts of the National Commission 42 states made 587 criminal code amendments. Some of these amendments the commission found foolish?such as Missouri's making dog-stealing grand larceny* and Idaho's law against buying or selling chickens after dark with out notifying a sheriff. But nine-tenths of the changes were declared "seriously and carefully considered"?anti-pistol laws in Michigan, New Jersey, Rhode Island;? Baumes-type laws in Vermont, Minnesota, Missouri, Massachusetts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Cauterizers | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

Accordingly, there is much dissatisfaction in the land. Lord Rothermere, hating the Laborites more than he loves the Conservatives, apparently has come to the conclusion that the latter have not even a dog's chance of winning the next elections, which many think will be held in 1929. At all events, he appears to think that Mr. Baldwin will not be able to win a comfortable working majority. Hence he has decided to back Mr. Lloyd George. That, at any rate, is the way it is summed up in British political circles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: From Tory to Liberal | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...program committee, issued statements charging that "the farmers feel that the banking and industrial interests have prejudiced the leaders of the country, even the President of the United States against any relief for farmers." Peppery, he stormed and fretted; quit shortly, "sore" (said one Southern delegate) "as a hound dog with a briar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: At Houston | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...Bull Dog Drummond, Spring Cleaning, The Last of Mrs. Cheney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 31, 1927 | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

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