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Word: getting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gary is an important figure in international business and in Missouri was formerly chairman of Missouri's first Road Commission and is the man principally responsible for the beginning of Missouri's present system of good roads which was carried through under the slogan "Get Missouri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 23, 1928 | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...When my father did not return the next morning I telephoned the Prince. He assured me that he did not know where my father could be. I then telephoned the Tsaritsa Alexandra. She sent a carriage to get...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Debauchee's Daughter | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

...added to the milk for one group of babies; another group received the same diet minus the gelatin. The gelatinized fed infants gained more, vomited less, regurgitated rarely. Gelatin makes cows' milk more digestible by breaking up the tough, difficultly digested casein allowing the digestive juices to get at the smaller particles; at the same time its spreading sticky quality keeps food down which in liquid form would be immediately rejected by a sensitive irritable stomach. Some idiosyncratic infants, however, may not take kindly to gelatin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gelatin for Babies | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

...knew I could do it. It cost me $7,000 to finance the adventure, but I hope to get it all back and more besides." These were the first words spoken by Jean A. Lussier, 36, of Springfield, Mass., after he had dropped over Niagara Falls in a rubber ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jul. 16, 1928 | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

...Winged Chariot, a comfortable limousine that darts down London streets or rises quietly into the air far above traffic and turmoil. He promises Protegé Dickon (Gerhardi himself in disguise) his greatest evening paper as wedding present, but reneges. He begets a son of Eva, whom he marries to get the better of her other lovers. Eva who inherits her Russian mother's charming promiscuity was accustomed to arrive penniless at some unfortunate town, take up her abode at the workhouse, but carouse nightly at cafe and dance hall. Eva once traveled from Ireland with nine Catholic priests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All Held Hands | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

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