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Word: lots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stream of machine-gun, shotgun and revolver fire. Brakes shrieked; the first sedan careened toward the curb. Like rats leaving a doomed ship, two men jumped out. One sprinted 100 yards, fell on his face on the pavement-dead, full of little holes. The other floundered across a vacant lot, died with seven bullets in his flesh. . . . They, Frank Koncil and Charles Hrubek, were members of "Polack Joe" Saltis' bootlegging gang. Rival thugs had killed them. This was only another episode in Chicago's intramural liquor war, which has killed more than 100 gangsters,* an assistant district attorney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Smart Young Men | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...Considering what you get out of it, you certainly spend an awful lot of time in college," was the opinion of Clarence Darrow, famous criminal lawyer, when interviewed for the CRIMSON. "I have no doubt that college is beneficial to some, but if, as it appears to me, the aim of the majority of men is to make money, it is a great waste of time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGIANS WASTING TIME, THINKS DARROW | 3/17/1927 | See Source »

...middle west believes that the leading Conference teams could win at least six out of ten games from Yale, Harvard or Princeton, as they believe they could in the long run from Pennsylvania, Cornell, Dartmouth, the Army of the Navy. But a few more intersectional games would add a lot of spice to any football season. The Big Ten Weekly

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 3/8/1927 | See Source »

...pray to Jesus and get all charged up like a battery." Thus spoke alluring Aimee Semple McPherson in Manhattan last week when she began her conquest of sin there. Said an oldtimer: "I've heard 'em all ... She's the only one of the lot can touch Henry Ward Beecher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: All Charged Up | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

That Mrs. Phipps sure gave you a good idea. I budgeted it out for fun last night, and am certain you could get a lot of cheap advertising by putting TIME decoys on the subway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 21, 1927 | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

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