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Word: hearses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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"I rise to congratulate the State of Missouri upon possessing a representative so amiable and innocent that, like the three Japanese apes, he sees no evil, he hears no evil and he speaks no evil, and consequently is dully qualified to defend all evil-an innocent abroad, in the intellectual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Missourian Colloquy | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

Mr. I has not been long in America, but he is a keen observer. Few things escape him. The largest cities, the tallest buildings, the fastest railroads, the colleges, the newest books, the latest fads Mr. I is all ears as he hears Americans string superlative epithets end on end...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FAMOUS MR. I | 1/20/1925 | See Source »

A tired world pricks up its drooping ears when it hears news of this sort, and breathes a prayer of gratitude. In the midst of turmoil and confusion, there is, then, one nation that has a care for its food, one gathering of experts who say save the universe from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VIVENT LES GOURMETS! | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

Flying in the densest fog will soon have no terrors for the aviator. On the airway between Dayton, Ohio, and Moundsville, W. Va., the Army Air Service has installed a "radio compass," with electric oscillations flashing between the towers at either end of the airway. An aviator flying exactly on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Radio Compass | 12/8/1924 | See Source »

A happier creature than the Southern negro of the old type does not exist Carefree, without a thought of the morrow, his is the perfect joy of the eternal child. Yet his inefficiency as a workman defies all comparison. One never hears of a negro committing suicide. "But taint strange...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCIENTIFIC HAPPINESS | 11/11/1924 | See Source »

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