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Word: misses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rochester, N. Y., took train for San Francisco one day last week. Three days later, David O. Meeker, medical student, also of Rochester, appeared at the Omaha, Neb., airport and hired a plane to take him to San Francisco. Word got around that Mr. Meeker was chasing Miss McConnell; the press played up the affair as if it were some sort of Derby. Miss McConnell won, arriving in San Francisco a day ahead of Mr. Meeker. It developed that Miss McConnell had been in a nervous condition and that Mr. Meeker, a friend of her family, wanted to make sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights, Fliers: Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

Married. Clarence Saunders, 47, famed Piggly Wiggly storekeeper of Memphis, Tenn.; and Patricia Houston, 29, of Tunica, Miss.; in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...Miss Nichols: "No. I just wrote from my heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...Miss Nichols: "I can't say that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...Miss Nichols also testified that she had never read Shakespeare, but that she had heard of the character of Shylock. The defense was attempting to show that the theme of Abie's Irish Rose was as old as Shakespeare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

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