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Word: downes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a yarn making the rounds here on how a hilarious sailor strolled down a street in Guantanamo City singing "Me and My Shadow." He was arrested and spent a night in the Hotel De Callaboose. The police, it seems, thought he was making fun of Machado.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Delicately cracking a bottle of grape juice over its Gloucester fisherman's bow. Mrs. Charles Francis Adams, wife of the Secretary of the Navy, solemnly pronounced these words at Portsmouth, N. H., last week as the Navy's largest submarine slid down the stocks and out upon the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Submarines & Innuendoes | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

The Plan. The Transportation Act of 1920 which returned U. S. railroads from the Government to their owners ordered the Commission to prepare a nation-wide plan for consolidation. The carriers were then weak and shaky after Federal operation. It was argued that consolidation would link the strong with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Merger Plan Hatched | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Only one occurrence threatened to mar the disciplined success of the rescue work which followed. A bevy of panicky Chinamen from the galleys of the Fort Victoria started to run amok with kitchen knives. An armed officer quelled them; the well-regulated filling of lifeboats with women and children, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: All Hands Saved | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

The shaft of the mine slopes down 3,500 ft. The three miners rescued alive were working on an upper level. Below, the workings were choked with wreckage and deadly gas. Miners blamed sparks from an electric coal-cutting machine for the blast.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: McAlester Blast | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

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