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Word: lefts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Instead, he: 1) Spent his first night away from the White House in a tent; 2) Got a twig-whack on the left cheek, just below the eye which made a mark; 3) Attended a Baptist Sunday School meeting at Sperryville; 4) Had his automobile pulled out of a Virginia mudhole by a state-maintained team of mules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: May 27, 1929 | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...explain. But President Hoover had more important things to tell about than twig-whacks. With his callers he talked of German reparations-a reduction of U. S. claims as a sacrifice. The conferees gravely nodded their heads, agreed to a modification of U. S. policy. Senator Borah left 15 minutes before the rest. All departed, holding their tongues, wondering if it were too late to keep dinner engagements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: May 27, 1929 | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...flashy short stop, which may keep him on the side lines. In case McGrath cannot plan his place at short will be taken be Captain G. E. Donaghy '29, while G. Whitney '29 will cover the hot courier and B. H. Ticknor '31 will fill the latter's left field post...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDEFEATED GREEN HURLER FACES NINE ON SOLDIERS FIELD | 5/24/1929 | See Source »

...among those Boston members in attendance. William Tudor Gardiner '14, Governor of Maine, and an Alumni Marshal at the Harvard Commencement this year, will also be at Cincinnati. Henry C. Clark 'H, General Secretary of the Harvard Alumni Association and Executive Secretary of the Harvard Endowment Fund, has already left for the gathering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALUMNI MEETING DRAWS BOSTON MEN | 5/23/1929 | See Source »

Indeed Mr. Fuller has reinvented all the appurtenances of worksday life. The only thing left for him now, is the discovery of that elixir, by which man can double his span--so that he may satisfactorily enjoy the inevitable Millenium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DYMAXION | 5/22/1929 | See Source »

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