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Word: lots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fills the map with detail. When one reached a point where the map shows a river, but there is none, it causes uncomfortable confusion. We had to live on monkey meat and caterpillars, great fuzzy ones. I never thought they would be so tough, but these took a lot of chewing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "FORBIDDEN CITY" VISITOR TO SPEAK | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

Applications, for tickets for the Dartmouth games on January 12 and February 23 are not limited, and are filled by lot ten days before the games. Tickets remaining after the allotment will be sold in order of receipt of applications...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CUT HOCKEY PRICES FOR OWNERS OF H. A. A. BOOKS | 1/6/1927 | See Source »

...raucous-voiced hymns."- So white priests have, for a half-century, been urged by their bishops to work among the Negroes. Roman Catholics do not urge blackamoors to join their Church. But they do, by exquisite example, show the worth of life within the Faith. And, although the Negro "lot can on earth never be equal with those about them," still Negro boys can become Roman Catholic priests and Negro girls can join their special orders -the Handmaids of the Pure Heart of Mary, or the Oblate Sisters who do whatever work they may be told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In Harlem | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

...Xmas, Inc., dat's me," said Herman. "Dey say you can't get sump'n fer nuthin' around here but dat's de bunk. Looka wot I got fer a lot o' lousy little saucers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Xmas, Inc. | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

...Guinevere-wIth Guinevere, embodiment of all perfections, inculcatrix of his brightest ideals, his spiritual mother and above all, King Arthur's wife! Galahad rode oft, snorting, but not without a lecture from Arthur himself upon the presumptuous folly of children judging their parents. Galahad not only vexed Lance lot but naturally embarrassed him greatly in the early days, before Guinevere's first blind jealousy abated. She would not listen to Lancelot's story, honest as the day, of how on his very first visit to King Pelles, that old stickler's bold-spirited daughter had offered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Dec. 27, 1926 | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

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