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Word: fours (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact, no numbers at all, although it has built an experimental amphibion. . . . 8) That, unless the basis for comparison be automobiles or some similar commodity, the present rate of production on the well-known Great Lakes Sport Trainer could hardly be classed as "small numbers," since it stands at four complete airplanes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Limitation Policy | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...satin princess wedding gown by Patou, cap of duchesse lace and bouquet of orchids and lilies of the valley were already matters of record. Together they visited New Haven, where John is a clerk in the offices of the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R., and inspected the four-room $78-per-month apartment which Florence and John have rented there. Said Mother-in-Law Coolidge: "I am pleased with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mother-in-Law Approves | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...hour schedule, the Broadway Limited of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the 20th Century of the New York Central. Begininng on Sept. 29, the two railroads announced last week, the Pennsylvania will run two more 20-hour trains each way every day, the New York Central will run three more westbound, four more eastbound. All will have the same equipment and extra fare as the old 20-hour trains. Detroit-Pontiac. The Grand Trunk Railway last week announced plans to electrify its lines between Detroit and Pontiac. A four-track, 40-minute suburban system will be provided-and over the hurrying interurban...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hastenings | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...Patrolman George Schuchman. emerged from a cigar store, heard someone (voice not recognized) cry: "Hey, George, those two guys are stealing my gin." Drawing his revolver, determined to fire into the air, the police-man shot one of the hijackers through the head, found 125 bottles of gin in four abandoned parcels. Police inspectors investigated, declared that the patrolman had done his duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Who's What | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...Washington, D.C., on the following day a Senate committee summoned four U. S. shipbuilders to discover whether they had not been conducting propaganda to make the government build more ships than it wished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Epic Lobby | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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