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Word: green (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eyes contain in the retina red, yellow and almost colorless green globules, which may be important in the undetermined mechanism of color vision, stated London's Herbert Eldon Roaf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Physiological Congress | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Awarded. By Harper & Bros, to Julian Green, for writing The Dark Journey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pursuit of Happiness | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Baden, 1851, 9 kr. green (error...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Philatelists | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...recent years when an oil man has a nightmare, he sees a sea of petroleum. vaster than the Pacific, with dark green oleaginous billows rolling before a wind that moans "Overproduction, overproduction." Yet last week when 2,941,550 barrels of oil swelled up each day from the bowels of the U. S., a greater secretion than ever at any one time before, there was comparatively little disturbance to the peaceful slumbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: The Oily Deep | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...gathered stray lumps of coal to keep her drunken father warm. "Youse wuzz good to me," she breathed to the portrait of her mother (recently deceased). She appeared in rags, in bathing suits, in bed; as the innocent, the maiden betrayed, finally as the tempered lady who babbled of green fields as she died in New Rochelle at the tender age of 22. Her devoted master and mistress, mystic and delicate respectively, were ever clad in lounging robes. When the curtain rolled down for the 34th time the audience wondered what Veronica had been "getting even" with- it may have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Sep. 2, 1929 | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

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