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Word: doings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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E. W. Osborn of the Evening World was low man. He saw 86 plays during the past season, guessed right only four times more than he guessed wrong, expressed no opinion twelve times, scored .453. Just above him was large Percy Hammond of the Herald Tribune, purveyor of false pomp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Guesser | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

Owen D. Young caught the Aquitania last week, and it was important that he should do so. On June 15 he was due to be in Cleveland, calling the world's attention to the marriage of his sober-minded son, Charles Jacob, to Miss Esther Mary Christensen, talented black-and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: By the People's Advice | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

At that precise instant the federal cavalry dashed to the rescue. The rebels, foiled, fell back. It was all very much like cinema but such things do happen where Latins live.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Character Day | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

People began to bet instead on Mr Jinks, a grey horse named by Ireland's President Cosgrave, with ancestry dating to 1774 and in whose long lineage there always has been a grey dam or a grey sire. On the morning of the Derby there were three favorites: Cragadour, Mr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Epsom Derby | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

The toad, one of the most ancient forms of present animals, one that lives both in water and on land, apparently secretes a fluid whose components are both animal and vegetable. One ingredient is ergosterol, which is found in cod liver oil. Another is adrenalin exactly like that taken from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Toad Venom | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

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