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Word: fulle (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would not equal its 720 feet of length. Should it approach on a mission of destruction, it could open fire with a battery of artillery. And should a defending airplane squadron seek to rise over it and destroy it with bombs, the dirigible would send out five full-sized planes, carried underneath the bag and launched from built-in runways. Having left the Stadium, the ship could then travel to any European capital and return without having to refuel. It could bring back its five planes, also, for it is so built that planes not only can be launched from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Biggest Dirigible | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

...comes to this," concluded Minister Smiddy. "If one of the tests of self-government is the ability to insure stability and to lay the foundation for an economic and cultured development that will create for the average citizen the appurtenances for a full life, the people of the Irish Free State have already during the last five years amply justified their claim to be allowed to govern themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ireland on the Make | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

Soon President William T. Cosgrave was re-elected to that office by a vote of 68 to 22-his own party numbering but 46. His speech of acceptance was long, reluctant, full of reproaches to the Fianna Fail for not taking the oath and their seats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ireland on the Make | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

None the less, Manufacturer Henry H. Timken has been willing to spend a million dollars to give a full test to the doctor's theories. This is no whim of Mr. Timken who is well known in Canton for his secret philanthropies, especially for supplying medical aid to indigents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tank Treatment | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

Alias the Deacon (Jean Hersholt). As in the play of the same name, the hero's occupation is fleecing the wicked rich to invest the righteous poor. An angel-faced cardsharp, he blandly deals his opponents four nines, a flush, a straight, a full house, only to stagger the crowd by slapping down a royal straight flush for his own account, thus taking the largest poker pot ever staked in that town. With the proceeds he raises a mortgage, facilitates a wedding, stores up treasure in Heaven. Then he ambles into a box car and shuffles off to other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Jul. 4, 1927 | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

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