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Word: lefts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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With a horse, Ulysses loosed destruction over Troy. In 1871, Mrs. O'Leary did the same for Chicago with a petulant cow, which shattered an oil lantern in its straw-lined stall. Flames ran amuck, ravaged the straggling town, left it blackened, hollow, crisp. Disconsolate, penniless, young Potter Palmer stood in the ashes of his home. Suddenly, where was Bertha? Bertha had borrowed a buggy, careened into a nearby village, wired New York for an extension of credit. New York agreed, and-phoenix-like-Chicago and the Potter Palmers soared together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Where Was Bertha? | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...Homer Reeves, Hooverite, shot & killed one Ferd Lyons, Smithite. In Spencer, West Va., one E. H. Huffman shot one Clyde Moore. In Brooklyn, one Walter McCann, realtor, with a diamond stickpin, diamond ring and $600 in Hoover bets, was fed knock-out drops and virulent poison, robbed and left dead near a speakeasy. In Boston, Miss Gertrude Ryan, secretary to U. S. Representative George Tinkham, told the police that a carful of young Democrats crowded her automobile off the road, maltreated herself and sister, beat her nephew. In Worcester, Mass., a parade of 10,000 Hooverites was egged, bricked, undeterred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Politicules | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...took stock of itself. In failing to win the Presidency, it had lost practically all its power in Congress. Its House minority was 100 seats. In the Senate it was 17 seats behind. It was almost as though the 15 millions who voted for Smith were left without any voice in the doings of the 21 millions who voted for Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Democracy | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...work this week, and it is felt that he can stand the additional rest without detriment. A shake-up in the forward wall is necessitated by Ticknor's absence, with J. N. Trainer '31, moving over to right guard to fill his position, J. E. Barrett '30 taking left guard, who in turn will be replaced by T. H. Alcock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DANGEROUS HOLY CROSS ELEVEN TO INVADE STADIUM | 11/17/1928 | See Source »

...defense men, while the forward line has been almost powerless to score. In last Saturday's encounter the defense men finally came up to the forward line to kick the goals. So today's encounter will find E.J. Des Roches at center forward and Louis Kerness '29 at left fullback...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY SOCCER TEAM MEETS SPRINGFIELD TODAY | 11/14/1928 | See Source »

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