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Word: lefts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...arose, bowed to awed spectators, looked to the right, to the left, and, with appropriate gestures, proceeded to give a four minute address...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Robot Soon to Supplant Humans in Purely Mechanical Tasks Inventor Predicts--Has Already Shown Signs of Intelligence | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...overalls, and Reinhart Schwimmer. Frank Gusenberg, Pete's "Kid" brother, carrying 20 bullets, lived for three hours after the shooting but gangland's curious code of honor sealed his lips against police proddings. Besides him, the only living thing in the garage when the slaughterers left was the Gusenbergs' police dog, a fierce animal raging on its chain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Chicago's Record | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

Herbert Bayard Swope, redheaded, blue-shirted, jut-jawed journalist, left his post as executive editor of the New York World on Jan. 1. Thereafter, many a fellow-journalist pondered the Swopian future. What would he do, this man of 47 surcharged with energy, wealth, self-confidence? Would he buy a great metropolitan daily? Would he go into politics, write a book, be tsar of some industry? Or would he just twiddle his talented thumbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Swope's Smoke | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...everlasting memorial to the Confederacy's heroes, Lee, Jackson, Davis and their men, on the awesome bluff of Stone Mountain, Ga. The dismissal of famed and fiery Sculptor Gutzon Borglum and the engaging of Sculptor Henry Augustus Lukeman ushered in a period of vacillation and chaotic nagging which left the project at a virtual standstill (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Again, Borglum | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...upper hand over his enthusiasm before it was too late to catch the last train back to Boston, and the evening was spent quietly reading a South Sea island story in his suite in the tower of Memorial Hall. So the annual fever has come and gone and left only a few bruises and the regret that he had not had the sense to buy earmuffs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/23/1929 | See Source »

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