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Word: madison (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...situation, however, is useful to ornithology. From the balcony Harold Lester Madison, acting director of Cleveland's Museum of Natural History, is getting data on the birds which migrate across the district and on the relation of atmospheric conditions to the height to which birds fly. But such usefulness cannot last very long, because birds somehow learn to avoid man-built obstacles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bird-Killing Tower | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...misted, drizzled and poured, but the Brown Derby waved from the Battery to Central Park at cheering, milling millions. In the evening, Madison Square Garden was a tornado of noisy, militant affection. Unlike his opponent under similar circumstances, Governor Smith was at ease. He let his people exult, exulted with them. When he was ready, he hushed them. When he was through speaking he stayed among them, shaking his own hands to them all, hailing individuals, happy in tumult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: A Long, Hard Job | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...John McCormack, Irish-American tenor, returned from Ireland and announced he might sing "The Star Spangled Banner" at the Smith rally in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, "provided, of course, that I'm wanted." Wanted, he sang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Politicules | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...Madison Square Garden Corp. (prizefights, campaign speeches): $308,448 (deficit), as against $52,848 (profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: 15x | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

Average Citizen Roy Lewis Gray of 711 Second Street, Fort Madison, Iowa. Reason: not stated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Votes Nov. 5, 1928 | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

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