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Word: eves (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christmas Eve, 1908, Alice Warder, socially registered in Washington, was taken to wife by John Work Garrett, Baltimore scion. Last week, as she was cruising through the Adriatic with a bald-browed, black-bearded man with a limp, things happened in Washington which made her the spouse of the next U. S. Ambassador to Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: To Rome | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...Year's eve while holding up a roadhouse, Rico found it necessary to kill a police officer. In the subsequent rise and fall of Rico in Chicago gangdom, this murder played the part of Fate in a Greek tragedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: U. S. Gangster | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...Dean Pound's commencement address to the daughters of Eve at Wellesley he intimated that in eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge we have not partaken of what was forbidden, as did our first parents, but have merely eaten "more than we can digest" and are suffering a no more serious consequence than "a nightmare of disillusionment." We have had an "orgy of idealism," an extravagant faith in "a perfectibility to be brought about by law." If as been as if we, too, had believed the word of the serpent that eating of this tree would enable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Tree of Knowledge | 6/20/1929 | See Source »

...preliminary season has included 24 games, of which 17 have been victories seven losses, and one a tie game. Holy Cross, once with Nekola in the box, has twice taken the measure of the University outfit while the Quantice Marines divided their two game series. GILLIGAN LEADS BATTERS ON EVE OF YALE SERIES Player a.b. r. b. 2b. 3b. h.r. s.b. s.h. Ave. p.o. a. e. Ave. Page 8 3 4 0 0 1 0 0 .500 1 5 0 1.000 Gilligan 80 21 31 3 0 3 10 2 .388 24 0 0 .923 McGrath...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baseball Averages Indicate Better Batting and Pitching, Weak Fielding | 6/18/1929 | See Source »

Died. Chicago May (Mrs. May Churchill Sharpe), 52, reformed international crook; on the eve of marriage to her oldtime comrade "Charlie Smith" (Robert Considine); in a Philadelphia hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 10, 1929 | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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