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Word: north (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Engineer's post, the President let it be known that he was looking for three other warrior-engineer-executives. They will be General Brown's lieutenants, one in local charge of the flood relief project (Cairo, 111., to the Gulf), one in charge of the Mississippi developments north of Cairo, one in charge of the Great Lakes and proposed St. Lawrence waterway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Warrior-Engineer | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...hand a single large tail feather. Settling on the architrave above a doorway, the ominous pigeon cooed and looked down the whole day long upon the high, industrial tariff army of Generalissimo Reed Smoot (Utah) and the low, consumer tariff army of Field Marshal Furnifold McLendel Simmons (North Carolina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: First Assault | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...Domingo to safeguard American and foreign interests during a revolution. He saw service in the Gulf of Mexico in 1904 and commanded the Destroyer Tucker, which was in the second group to reach Queenstown, Ireland, in May, 1917, and operated from Queenstown and later on escort duty in the North Atlantic. In June, 1929, after two years spent in Central American waters, he was detached from command of the U. S. S. Cleveland and assigned to duty at Harvard. He has had two tours of duty as instructor at the Naval Academy and two as a member of the Staff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WYGANT TO HEAD NAVAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT | 9/27/1929 | See Source »

...melodrama is by Clyde North, Albert C. Fuller, Jack T. Nelson. With its loudspeakers in the audience, mechanically realistic set and smart cast, it should succeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 23, 1929 | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...Marie D. Ames Byrd (Richard Evelyn Byrd flew to the north pole, is now in Antarctica preparing to fly to the south pole): "My most awful nightmare is that the world has suddenly turned star-shaped . . . and that now there are five poles to be discovered." She lives at Boston, her parents' home, or at Winchester, Va., the Byrd home, with their four children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Wives' Words | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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