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Word: morrises (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Capt. A. T. Morris of the American steamer Maracaibo, leaned over the ship's rail smoking an evening pipe, gazing at the placid harbor of Willemstad, Curaçao. A thin sliver of moon hung over the tanks of the Royal Dutch oil refinery on shore, shone on the yellow plaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Bottom Button | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

The eagerness of book levers to secure everything with any pretence of literary form written in Elizabethan or Stuart times, carries its lesson to a library which expects to be a workshop for students of literature in the long future Harvard is now in a position to anticipate future demands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winship Reviews Recent Acquisitions Exhibited in Widener Treasure Room; Good Fortune Features Current Year | 6/18/1929 | See Source »

Tangible evidence of U. S. railroad prosperity is progress in electrification of U. S. railroads. Following one such evidence last November (TIME, Nov. 12) in announcement that Pennsylvania Railroad would spend $100,000,000 in electrification, the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad last week announced that it would electrify 173 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Electrified D. L. & W. | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

Two famed Manhattan theatres-Daly's and the Century-were last week included in a parcel of real estate bought by Building Brothers Irwin S. and Henry I. Chanin. The entire block bounded by Broadway, Central Park West, 62nd street and 63rd street, sold for $12,000,000, will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Topless Towers | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

Red Top, Conn., June 9--Morris Ruggles Brownell Jr. '30, of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, was yesterday elected captain of the Junior University crew. A member of his Freshman eight and of the jayvees last season, he is now occuping the number 5 seat in the second Harvard shell.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROWNELL IS AWARDED CAPTAINCY OF JAYVEES | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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