Search Details

Word: eating (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...what months is it safe to eat oyster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Evening This Week: Game No. 6 | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...thousands of square miles there are only three white settlements in each of which there are approximately 20 white inhabitants. Today, of course, the cannibalistic and head hunting proclivities of the natives are confined almost exclusively to the interior, where the inhabitants of one village not only hunt and eat the men, women and children of the next village, but speak an entirely different language...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peabody Museum Explorer Tells of Peculiar Dietetics of New Guinea Natives--Papuans Are Linguistically Isolated | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

Another time, workmen roped off a main London thoroughfare, spat on their palms, swung picks all morning, sat on the edge of the gaping asphalt to eat their lunches, continued their havoc until sundown, then returned to their colleges and usual clothes. Weeks of traffic congestion failed to reveal the hoax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sub Specie Aeternitatis | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

...Peter uses a white man's time-table the Negro will never get to the land beyond.' 'Thriftlessness,' said I, 'is the Negro's great handicap-thriftlessness of time, health, money.' Chicago Commissioner of Health Bundesen followed me, urged Negroes to eat properly so as to avoid anemia, pneumonia, rickets." Pliny Fisk, financier: "After dining in a Columbus Circle restaurant one evening last week, I walked toward my hotel, on the upper west side of Manhattan, alone. A large Negro brushed roughly by me. 'Be careful how you are walking,' said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 28, 1927 | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

...body has not been found. Two other women have been killed-one of whom is said to have begun the Shelton-Birger feud when both gang-kings courted her favor. Law-officers for the most part life-loving, peace-seeking, have shut eyes, stopped ears, waited for dog to eat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Dodging Dynamiters | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

Previous | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | Next