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Word: iras (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bridge was played, innumerable cigarets were smoked. One motor began spurting oil. Sergeant Roy Hooe pussyfooted along the slim runway leading to the spewing machine, did some windy tinkering. Capt. Ira Eaker, at the joy stick, wore a haggard grin. He headed back toward Los Angeles. The day was sunny, the fog had drifted away. The fourth day, the eighty-seventh hour passed. Had the five flown directly eastward the same distance from their starting point they would have been winging over Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Question Mark | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...Chicago executives heard and cringed, then recovered their ease upon reflecting that the lecturer was Dr. Hilton Ira Jones, sound scientist, at present director of scientific research for the Redpath (lyceum, lecture) Bureau and therefore a professional rouser of emotions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mares' Nest | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...corner of Fifth Avenue and 81st street. The apartment house, known to phrase-coiners as the house of the golden doorknobs, was the first one in Manhattan to decoy rich tenants out of their private homes. Among its other magnificent appurtenances, it now contains Elihu Root, Murry Guggenheim, Ira Nelson Morris, Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 18, 1928 | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

Captain J. H. Lane '28, E. J. W. Danielson '29, J. C. Dreier '28, H. L. Ellison '28, R. C. Glenn '30, J. R. Harper '28, Captain-elect Hartnett, R. L. Hatch '28, Ira Markwett '28, A. H. B. McGuire '30, C. D. McQuaid '28, A. M. Murphy '29, O. E. Mulliken '28, S. P. Park '29, F. A. Pickard '29, H. L. Porter '28, W. J. Salmon '30, H. B. Sanders '30, J. J. Stenberg '28, H. D. Stone '28, H. J. Wallace '28, Manager J. O. Wilson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEAM ELECTS HARTNETT 1929 LACROSSE LEADER | 6/2/1928 | See Source »

Married. Adolphe Menjou, 38, sartorial cinemactor (The Grand Duchess and the Waiter, A Night of Mystery), to Kathryn Carver, 25, blonde cinemactress, onetime wife of Photographer Ira Hill; in Paris. Twenty-five cameramen were present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 28, 1928 | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

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