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Word: fours (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Into a harbor in the Azores last week sailed the Carlsark, 46 ft. ketch. Above the gleaming hull rose four tanned sailor-men-all from Cornell University. Carl L. Weagant, last year's football manager, of Douglaston, L. I., was the skipper. Said he: "My crew did not suspect my intention of crossing the Atlantic until we were halfway to the Azores, seven days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ketch | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...redder as he thought of the $5,000,000 worth of horse flesh that had arrived. Names of Whitney. Riddle, Widener, Vanderbilt, Sinclair, dutifully took their places on the "boards" as the week advanced. On shaded streets leading to the track rolled yellow, open-faced hacks with fringed awnings, four-in-hands, victorias, still the choice of many a Saratoga horse-lover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Saratoga | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...died of alcoholism to every three men. The Keeley Institute at Dwight, Ill., which was in the news last week because it is enlarging its inebriety cure facilities, has had women patients since the late Leslie E. Keeley founded it a half century ago.* The "Keeley Cure" usually requires four weeks. The charge is $150, plus board & lodgings. Last year the institute treated more drunks than during any year since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drunkenness | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...every name in Directors of the United States appears in Who's Who. Directors vary from smalltime politicians on the boards of backwoods construction companies to tycoons on billion dollar corporations. Unique among U. S. Directors is George Fisher Baker Jr. who is on four billion dollar corporations: General Motors, General Electric, U. S. Steel, American Tel. & Tel. Last week while his Tel. & Tel. and General Electric were in the midst of a 23 and a 25 point rise, unique Director Baker did something which surprised his conservative stockholders, about half of whom are women. The board, including Thomas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Yachting & Singing | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

Then, when a whiteman forger and thief stole $140,000 of State money and was pardoned after serving four years of a five-year term Editor Harris wrote: "Mule Hicks, an ignorant 17-year-old Negro, stole a mule worth less than $100. He was sentenced to serve twenty years at hard labor. After serving twelve years he was still in the chain gang, and as a result of his treatment attempted to escape. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to hang, although not a witness saw the killing. Mule Hicks is a Negro. Who cares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Brave & Bankrupt | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

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