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Word: girls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gluck auf! auf wiedersehn! thin-faced Germans, expatriates in Moscow, bared their heads in last week's chilly air and cried good wishes to a small, chunky blonde girl, who dressed in grey knickers, sat at the wheel of a smart tourist car. She, Clarenore Stinnes, daughter of the late Hugo Stinnes, Germany's post-War industrial tsar, had broken a transeurasian tour at Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stinnes Daughter | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...murmur of "I told you so," went up. Boris was looking for an English girl of aristocratic parentage, of which there were scores eligible. But those who knew smiled, recalled the young King's sentiments not long ago expressed: "Bulgaria cannot afford a Queen. I sometimes wonder if she can afford a King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Count Rilski Abroad | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...Morrisville High School, in Doylestown, Pa., Miss Mary Bones was the instructor in athletics: Miss Ruth Steiner, a brawny girl, was the captain of the girls' basketball team. One afternoon, a youth, watching Ruth Steiner as she capered in dusty bloomers, squawked to her teammates, was moved to make an insulting remark. Infuriated, Ruth Steiner asked Miss Bones to make the youth apologize. Miss Bones re- fused, smiling at the intensity of Ruth Steiner. Later when they met on the street, Ruth Steiner grabbed Miss Bones, punched her face, scratched her shoulders, kicked her shins. Last week Ruth Steiner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Education | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...eight days Mrs. Sam Smith snuggled her newborn child to her, nursed it, found marked resemblances to her husband. On the eighth day she felt her strength returning. She discovered her suckling was a girl. Startled, she complained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: In Cleveland | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...Their very souls hang in the balance. If the Smiths are forced to accept this girl before they are satisfied that she is theirs, beau- tiful as the baby may be and as much as in time they may come to love her, the baby's life will be damned by an eternal doubt. Hospital officials must come clean in this matter, even if a mistake has been made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: In Cleveland | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

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