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Word: jammed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...allows her. to talk French, German, Danish and Russian. In England she studied dramatics at Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's Academy, made her début in London (1915) as a cockney girl in The Laughter of Fools. She reached the U. S. by making friends with Actress Elsie Jam's, whom she accosted at a stage door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Civic Virtue | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...moleskins and a fur-collared coat, Yale's Albie Booth, being saved for Harvard, sat on the bench where everyone could see him. On the field Donald McLennan, second substitute for Booth, after a scoreless first half, cut through tackle and around end to jam through one touchdown and lead the way for another. Eddie Wittmer and ten other hard-working Princetonians found they were up against a better team. Yale 13, Princeton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 25, 1929 | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...Jam-Roll Sirs: TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Limitation Policy | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

Scouts not only gave Baron Baden-Powell a Rolls-Royce, which he dubbed "Jam-roll" (be cause of the jamboree and one of the makers) but also an Eccles trailer-caravan, a painting of himself and a cheque for ?2,750. All gifts were made possible by international Scout contributions of one penny each. TIME omitted: Absence of Italian Scouts, dissolved by Mussolini. Yorker - Presence America's oldest Boy Scout, a New Yorker - E. K. Pietsch, 71, 18 years a Scout, who has always refused promotion. He was accompanied by his wife, 70. ... In reference to review...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Limitation Policy | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...Manhattan one Nellie, a trick cow who moos soprano over the radio, was led through the streets on her way to rehearsal, caused a traffic jam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Lion | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

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