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Word: hurriedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a wandering boy came home and for his welcome went to jail. Bert Acosta, bold, black haired flyer who sat beside Commander Byrd in his flight to France, snuggled his plane too close to his native Naugatuck, and was the first man booked in Connecticut police stations for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Gaol | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

Three weeks ago, a plump, pretty, motherly lady of some 50 summers, was taken ill on her way from Albany, N. Y. to an evening party in Manhattan. Her husband. Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York, hurried her to a hospital. "Appendicitis," said the doctors, and operated.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: A Candidate's Wife | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

There is no doubt but that in times of stress and strain the average man is more careful of his leisure hours than in less hurried moments, that when time for it is limited, recreation is subjected to a more thoughtful process of selection. It is thus that a revue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COCK ROBIN | 1/28/1928 | See Source »

To sit and vote as equals in a new "House of Parliament" hurried, last week, representatives of the toilers and officers of the vast Dunlop Rubber Co., near Birmingham. Each proud, contented toiler-"M.P." had been elected by the secret ballots of 150 constituents. A "Constitution" stood ratified by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: What the Worker Wants | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

Excess Baggage. This romance of a tightrope walker proved agreeable. Vaudeville slang and another peek into the no longer private lives of stage people were foremost factors. The hitherto useless wife of the tight-rope man suddenly became a famous movie star. She went slack on her marital obligations, one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 9, 1928 | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

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