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Word: engineeer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just before one daybreak a mahogany-colored rumrunner with a wide white stripe just above the water line shot out from the shadowy Canadian shore. Within 100 feet of a Detroit dock it was intercepted by U. S. Customs Speedboat 1401, patrolling the waterfront. Without warning a man in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: War on Two Fronts | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

Hence prize contestants must fly level at no faster than 35 m.p.h., get a variable speed in normal flight of 45 m.p.h. to 100 m.p.h., glide three minutes at 38 m.p.h. with engine shut off, land within a 100-ft. space, take off in 300 ft., gain more than 35...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Safe Flying | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

Capt. Morris obediently jangled the engine room telegraph. Wheezing asthmatically, the Maracaibo put out to sea. All the way to the mainland the Venezuelan rebels, inflamed with the success of the most daring filibuster in years, ate and drank and shouted again and again the words of their Captain, "On...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Bottom Button | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

Engine overhauls, minor repairs 1.00

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flying Clubs | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

In contrast to the U. S. Cabinet of ten, Great Britain is governed by an unwieldy group of some 44 Cabinet ministers and ministers not of Cabinet rank. Oldest in the MacDonald Cabinet is Lord Parmoor, 76, Lord President of the Council; youngest, Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 32, Chancellor of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Origins Analyzed | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

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