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Word: fleshed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then the sharp metallic rat-tat-tat-tat of machine guns sounded high above the din of battle as the Isabel replied in deadly fashion to the fire from both banks. Eventually, the Chinese, defeated, ceased fire, and the Isabel passed proudly on downstream. One sailor received two slight flesh wounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Between Two Fires | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...some idea how cultured and conservative Massachusetts roasts her murderers alive. . . . And how these Bostonians get a dead man out of the chair! . . . Elliott . . . started to put on the electrode and now I observed that Vanzetti was getting nervous. . . . There was a sickening stench of scorched flesh in the abattoir. Vanzetti's neck was slowly but surely turning to a blood red and the jugular veins were doubling up in knots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: At Geneva | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...Sinai. Hungry, they had grumbled at Moses, Aaron and Jehovah. Moses and Aaron conferred and announced to the Children that the Lord had promised to "rain bread from Heaven." Towards sunset, the glory of the Lord appeared in a cloud to repeat the promise. "At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Manna | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

...first time that the eyes of public cameras had seen President Coolidge on the back of a horse, either iron or flesh & blood. Dressed in complete cowboy costume down to Mexican spurs, the President rode three miles up the side of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills, accompanied by his riding instructor, "Dakota Clyde" Jones; Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio and others. Following a presidential salute of 21 blasts,? President Coolidge dedicated the national memorial which Gutzon Borglum began to carve on the granite face of Mount Rushmore. "We have come home to dedicate a cornerstone that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Aug. 22, 1927 | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

...Eddy will shortly return to earth and in the flesh. (Mrs. Eddy-never predicted that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mrs. Eddy Rediviva | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

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