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Word: misses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...astuteness of Harry Frank Guggenheim). Before the flight, Lindbergh was a sober boy of 25, with four parachute drops from troubled planes as his outstanding feats (see map). This week he is a serious young man, with character hardened against flattery and cajolery, about to be married to Miss Anne Morrow, intent on founding a family and consolidating his fortune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: On the Map | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

Elected. Mary Lewis, 32, blonde, blue-eyed; to the directorate of Best & Co., Manhattan department store. Miss Lewis types rapidly with three fingers, once sold draperies at Macy's for $12 per week, now writes Best & Co. advertising copy. Said she: "Luck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 27, 1929 | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...Miss Chilton develops her curious theme with conviction. The relationship of each character to Lynneth she reports with delicate precision, thereby creating seven people in their sharp contrasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Good Life | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...What Miss Rebman needs is a big brother-from now on I'm going to be her big Christian brother," said Cleveland's Delegate E. A. Roberts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Baptists at Buffalo | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...this convention came nearly 100 delegates. They heard the Dean repeat the anti-Shields accusations which Des Moines students had made last fortnight. These were that Dr. Shields and the University's Secretary-Treasurer, Miss Edith Rebman, had been morally turpitudinous in Los Angeles, Cal., and Waterloo, Iowa, that he and Miss Rebman, both Canadians, were unAmerican, favored Canadian students, that he and Miss Rebman spied on students and the faculty, caused mistrust, friction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Baptists at Buffalo | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

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