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Word: lateral (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crowds cheered wildly when word came of applause in Galveston for rose-garlanded Olga. Two hours later, dismayed, they saw the words flash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Lovely Lisl | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...whispered conversation between Capt. Urbina and his swarthy friends. They bowed to Capt. Morris, and slipped down the gangplank again. Almost immediately the Dutch calm of Willemstad was punctuated with shots, shouts and horrid outcry. Dark figures rushed along the waterfront to little Fort Amsterdam. Half an hour later Capt. Urbina, flushed, triumphant, returned to the S. S. Maracaibo with 400 followers and the disheveled Governor of Curaçao, His Excellency, Mr. L. A. Fruytier, captured in bed, and Willemstad's Chief of Police. Pressing an enormous pistol against Capt. Morris's abdomen, Rebel Urbina ordered him to sail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Bottom Button | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

Born in Chicago 33 years ago, Editor High took an A.B. from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1917, later an S.T.B. from Boston University's Theological School. During the War he served as a second lieutenant of aviation. He was a member of Europe's Reconstruction Committee in 1919, and later a member of the Methodist Mission to China. For a time he wrote dispatches for the Christian Science Monitor from Russia and other parts of Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: At Buck Hill Falls | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...months later Alcock was killed alighting at Rouen. Theirs was the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic. Lieut.-Commander Alber C. Read, U. S. Navy, and his companions stopped at the Azores on their Newfoundland-Portugal flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flying Clubs | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...gasoline. From two gallons of gas oil and fuel oil so treated, approximately one gallon of gasoline could be produced. This breaking down or splitting of the molecules was called cracking. The cracking process was first (1910) commercially perfected by William M. Burton, Standard Oil of Indiana chemist. Later Texas Co. developed the Holmes-Manley process, Standard of New Jersey the tube-and-tank process, and Gasoline Products Corp. the Cross process. Other processes followed and the petroleum industry found itself in the midst of patent infringement litigation featured 'by a Texas v. Standard of Indiana suit. Therefore Standard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Cracking Pool | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

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