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Word: hillses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Swift "tanks" sped over the hills of Württemberg-they were really motor trucks. Huge "bombers" and darting "pursuit planes" soared aloft-they were only toy balloons towed by motorcyclists. Great "howitzers" and "field guns" rumbled past-they were made of wood. Finally 25,000 soldiers marched, skirmished and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Grim Games | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

At Short Hills, N. J., a golfer addressed his ball to play the long first hole of the Baltusrol course. The ball disappeared over a highway on his left. He tried another, whacked it after its fellow. A third ball also, journeyed to limbo. A fourth landed on the fairway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Baltusrol | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

Writers of sporting articles are forever chafing themselves into a fine frenzy over nothing at all. It is their trade. Poor fellows, they must find something memorable in every tilt they see and a shred of Hector in every county champion. They are paid to make things seem exciting and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Shred of Hector | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

Mechanically-minded son of an Indiana miller, he none the less, to gain livelihood, had learned the printing craft. As a printer he worked among the Dakota Black Hills, at Minneapolis, at Chicago. There he founded the periodical Dairy Produce, fought against spurious oleomargarine. (In 1902 Congress passed the bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Daimler-Knight | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

Roger W. Babson, statistician: "To impress upon the 13th annual National Business Conference, which met as my guests at Wellesley Hills, Mass., the dangers of overextending the instalment business, I said, that 'a distinct recession in business and possibly a panic within two or three years would not be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 20, 1926 | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

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