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Word: keepings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Britons who moved out last week were early birds, first of a host of evacuations which will keep moving all through the early winter. Cheerfully their bands blared "Tipperary," "John Brown's Body," and even "I Can't Give You Anything But Love?Baby!" But the Rhineland villagers and the citizens of Wiesbaden stood lowering, glum. Only at Koenigstein did the local mayor pay a grudging honest tribute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Yoke Lifted | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...Navy tie Michigan last year. Discarding the huddle system, Columbia rehearsed two crack, barking quarterbacks, Liflander and Joyce. Princeton's fleet Eddie Wittmer turned up, sole survivor of a first-string backfield otherwise dispersed by graduation. At Stanford, giant Center Walter Heinecke reported, despite poor health which may keep him on the bench. Charlie ("Foots") Clements, Alabama tackle, seemed to be wearing bigger shoes than ever. Husky after a summer job as highway policeman, Fullback Harold Rebholz returned to Wisconsin. Harvard welcomed two of its less gentle sons, Quarterback Putnam and Fullback Harper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cagle & Co. | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...Suresnes, France, believes that land planes can attain 750 m.p.h. To excite experiment he offered a Bleriot Cup for fastest land planes, to correspond with the Schneider Maritime Cup. Difficulty of landing planes built for high speeds has retarded land plane design. M. Bleriot suggests that very fast planes keep speeding until they lose their momentum in air, then float to earth by huge parachutes. Treed. Over the Long Island outskirts of New York City, one Warren Engel, student flyer of the German-American Aero Club, ran out of gas. The best landing in his judgment was the cushiony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Sep. 23, 1929 | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...though trying to keep him from falling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Tomorrow You Go Solo!" Tomorrow I Fly Alone | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...voice, the language, of the world in action. To the men in college who are seeking constructive things they can mentally accumulate, the news offers the best available advance map and chart of those fields where college "cadets" sooner or ready, a convenient exercise for those who wish to keep intellectually "in training." In turn, the news requires a taste and appreciation on the part of its readers. This further constitutes a helpful influences for those to cultivate who would make their "first solo" flights successful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Tomorrow You Go Solo!" Tomorrow I Fly Alone | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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