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Word: keys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...liquor steamships, among them the Shawnee, shelled by a Revenue Cutter last month (TIME, Sept. 30); also, hundreds of thousands of dollars for "protection." In a nearby cottage a radio was spluttering instructions to liquor transports off shore. As the raiders seized the operator, a Federal radioman took the key, sent luring messages to the transports. Long had the raiding radioman practiced the syndicate's secret code. Months prior, mysterious aerial buzzes had been picked up by a Coast Guard cutter. The intricate code had been deciphered, its source determined by radio compass. Thus had Prohibition men located...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Biggest Raid | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...sides of every story, written by disinterested hands, with sources carefully identified.'' The editorial ended by stating that "newspaperdom, or that part of it which is conscientiously devoted to independent action that the people may know all, would greatly rejoice if President Butler would put the key into the door of this particular classroom and turn it for all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Columbia Flayed | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...public eye when, in 1776, the realization came both to the Colonists and to the British Chief Staff that a strategical control of the Hudson was a necessity. Should loyal New England sons hold this tiny plateau, the Colonies would not be out in two; should Britain force this key point, she might easily reduce the two parts of the infant Republic. West Point was fortified by New York farmers, garrisoned, and held until the end of the Revolution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STIRRING HISTORY OF POINT RECALLED | 10/19/1929 | See Source »

...Key Lies in Altering of Tariff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHILLIPS FAILS IN TRY TO OBTAIN CENSORED FRENCH LITERATURE | 10/16/1929 | See Source »

...possession of a latch-key marks a new era in life. For the next few weeks the Freshman class will be looking somewhat dubiously at theirs, and some will be obliged to deliver it over to the dean's office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NIGHT THOUGHTS | 10/15/1929 | See Source »

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