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Word: froing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vast that considerable armies, armies indeed of hundreds of thousands of men, were lost - dispersed, melted, evaporated; a war in which there were no real battles, only raids and affrays and massacres, as the result of which countries as large as England or France changed hands to and fro; a war of flags on the map, of picket lines, of cavalry screens advancing or receding by hundreds of miles without solid cause or durable consequence; a war with little valour and no mercy." The Significance. In the preface to his ebullient history Chancellor of the Exchequer Churchill insists that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Winnie the Poohbah | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...years old. Was a major in Lee's army, wounded three times. Surrendered at Appomattox. Snow-white hair and beard, stooped shoulders, almost blind, a fine face. The House simply adores him. He rarely speaks. He is a small man in stature. A secretary conducts him to and fro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Last of the 70th | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...this rushing to and fro by the fiscal heads of. Europe arose a popular impression that sweeping action would be taken at once. At the very least it seemed that the lukewarmness of Chancellor Churchill had been transformed into eager cooperation. Perhaps the Great Powers were on the eve of formally consummating the project first dreamed at Thoiry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Readjusting Reparations | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Having travelled 8,000 miles to and fro through the Solid South, Nominee Robinson said: "Without doubt, the religious question is foremost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Robinson | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

During the indoor and outdoor track season of the past two years Reid has shown himself to be a remarkable distance runner, having placed in every 1-8 mile cross country record of W. L. Tibbetts '26 in the Yale race by 28 and 1-5 seconds. He prepared fro Harvard at Somerville High School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRACK CAPTAINCY IS VOTED TO REID | 5/29/1928 | See Source »

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