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

Budapest, Hungary. "Wearied of aeroplaning, I took a wagon-lit (sleeping car) from Belgrade to Budapest-the city that has fallen heir to the gayety that was Vienna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Quadruple Fall | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

...Birmingham, Eng,, a druggist lay in his dark bed thinking about his past day's business. He caught his breath, lay deathly still, gasped, sprang up, lit his candle, paced his floor. He pored through the telephone book, telephoned the police, rushed to a series of addresses, called up the newspapers, searched hospitals, enlisted radio. His one clue was a name, "Penn." After three days, from London came a telegram signed by a Mr. Penn, allaying his fears, telling him that the next post would return to the druggist, unopened, the box of pills into which, in his night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Spider and Ants | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...Comp. Lit. 7 will be a half course the first half-year instead of the second half-year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY ANNOUNCES CHANGED COURSES | 9/25/1926 | See Source »

Anthropology 12 will be given in Comp. Lit. 7 will be a half course the first half-year instead of the second half-year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY ANNOUNCES CHANGED COURSES | 9/24/1926 | See Source »

...thousands there in the flesh stamped their approval, hurled their straw mats into the air, restrained themselves patiently to hear yet another speech by Conductor Willem van Hoogstraten. The thousands far away, in stuffy sitting-rooms, carpet-slippered, collarless, on cottage porches lit by a cool, waning moon, heard the last tremendous strains of the overture, whisked their dials around to another station. The Manhattan outdoor concert season had ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Returns | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

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