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Word: lies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Warrior got an exoneration from a New York State Senator who had been with him constantly at the Syracuse fair. He got a denial of the letter from its alleged writer and an evasion from its alleged recipient. Then he issued a document entitled: "Nailing a Lie in the Whispering Campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Warrior | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...effect on Smith sympathizers was one of satisfaction. But nailing a lie in a whispering campaign is much like nailing an ant on a rotten plank. The hammer blows shake out a lot of other ants and start them swarming furiously. A lot of the Brown Derby's best friends wished that the unhappy Warrior would leave lienailing to his assistants and confine himself to constructive campaigning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Warrior | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...ship-to-shore mail plane catapulted from the liner lie de France, flown by Naval Lieut. Louis Demougeot, forced down at sea, was rescued by the British trawler Children's Friend. Temporarily the ship-shore service has been discontinued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights, Flyers: Sep. 24, 1928 | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

With the addition of the two new floors source materials is now distributed over ten levels of stacks six of which lie above the level of the main entrance, designated by numerals and four below indicated by letter. Sufficient light on the lowest level is afforded by the center light well which extends about is feet below the outside ground level...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW ADDITION AFFORDS WIDENER SHELVING ROOM | 9/22/1928 | See Source »

...from Paris to the principal frontiers and to Marseilles. But in Scandinavia and Germany there are even third class sleepers, not yet to be found in France, Spain, Italy, Balkans. Citizens of the U. S. could have similarly cheap sleeps, en route, were they not democratically unwilling to lie down in a class inferior to "Pullman." Russians have got round the class distinction by installing "soft" and "hard" sleeping cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Seconds at Last | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

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