Word: eared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brakes set with a long screech. Three men pointed black steel muzzles from their car at the lone pedestrian. Four bullets passed through Mr. O'Higgins' neck, one lodged in his chest, a sixth entered one ear and penetrated to the base of his brain. The motor car lurched, raced away...
...ever since I got the first copy several years ago. I do not like it to print misleading statements so call attention to TIME, June 20, p. 5. about flies and mosquitoes not being above 3,500 feet. The worst swarms of both I ever encountered were on Rabbit Ear Creek, tributary of Troublesome rivers, 20 or more miles north of Kremmling, Grand Co., Col., at an elevation of 8,000 feet...
Sirs: In TIME (June 27, 1927, your article "Calendar" under BUSINESS & FINANCE) you have surely given ear to a worthwhile idea. Now, why not further it? Ask TIME readers, many, potent, forward-looking, to write in their approval (or disapproval) and then transmit their voices as a helping hand to progressive George Eastman. Include my name in such a listing...
...face of it, doesn't know what he is talking about, and, if he did, couldn't tell the truth about it?" -ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE NAVY THEODORE DOUGLAS ROBINSON. This exchange of acrimonious accusations last week marked the return to the public ear of onetime Col. William Mitchell, deposed assistant chief of the Army Air Service (TIME, Nov. 2, 1925, e seq.). It has long been Mr Mitchell's conviction that airplane development has made battleships obsolete, that Navy men have retarded aviation progress lest the fleets of the future should be exclusively fleets...
...week in a Fokker monoplane to fly to the Dutch East Indies. Leisurely, he hopped to Budapest-thence to Constantinople, Aleppo, Bagdad. . . . Crash & Fire, Three miles from Le Bourget (Paris air port) a heavily loaded biplane floundered down upon a wheat field, smashed its landing gear. There was an ear-splitting explosion, followed by the crackle of flames. From each side of the plane leaped two burning figures. They rolled in the wheat, saving their lives. Thus, ended the brief flight of Capt. Georges Pelletier Doisy and his navigator, M. Gonin, who had set out to break, by flying...