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Word: lights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Dr. Seward. dry Republican candidate for the governorship in New York, withdrew from the race, the most populous state of the union was abandoned to most, politicians. His resignation throws a wine-colored light not only on the election but, more important, on the coming prohibition referendum, the result of which the Republican candidates are pledged to uphold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL WET | 10/5/1926 | See Source »

...first on the machines and in the Leviathan, and finally in shells. Coach Haines plans to continue this policy which has proved so successful in the past and instruct the inexperienced men himself. Bobson took his boats out for the first time yesterday afternoon and gave the men a light workout preparatory to longer paddles later in the week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CREWS TAKE FIRST SPINS ON CHARLES | 10/5/1926 | See Source »

...scene of Franke Harling's other melodramatic opera, The Light from St. Agnes, was likewise laid in Louisiana. There was a passionate mistress, Toinette. There were likewise drunks, although not Kentuckians. And the tale was likewise told sharply, brutally, profanely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Deep River | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

...policemen. He climbed through the ropes-unshaven, hard-muscled, surprisingly thin-and crossed to Tunney's corner. "How are you, boy?" he said. The iron voice announced the weights: "Jack Dempsey, who has defended his title for the last six years. . . ." Loud booing. You bent over to light a cigaret and when you looked up they were fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tsar | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

...policemen. He climbed through the ropes-unshaven, hard-muscled, surprisingly thin-and crossed to Tunney's corner. "How are you, boy?" he said. The iron voice announced the weights: "Jack Dempsey, who has defended his title for the last six years. . . ." Loud booing. You bent over to light a cigaret and when you looked up they were fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Marine | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

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