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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jones. A prominent member of the coal business nowadays is "Tad" Jones. The public knows him better as the old-time coach of Yale football teams. Mr. Jones used to welcome to Yale physiques like coal heavers. Now he employs physiques like that professionally, and for his private yacht, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Bedevilment | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

The committee did succeed in agreeing on the nature and functions of the proposed international bank of settlement (TIME, March 11, 25), and at the very worst, that notable achievement, set forth in a voluminous report, will crown the labors of Mr. Morgan and Mr. Young. Said a member of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Crisis of Reparations | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

Neglecting to use a blanket, rash Rancher Jaerl Nafte and his foreman proceeded to kiboko a black named Sixpence Temba who, they said, had insulted a white woman. Spreadeagling the horrified blackamoor on a wagon wheel, they lashed him until their arms were tired. Later they suspended him by one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Kiboko | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

Black and troubled run the waters of Alaska's Yukon River, as they always do at April's end. Cause of the Yukon's blackness: it is stuffed, crammed, jammed with malacopterygian teleosteans. By tens of thousands they are crowding upstream. Waterfalls as high as 15 ft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: No Salmon for Cats | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

Like the spiteful dwarf or pixie in a fairy tale, the Rt. Hon. Philip Snowden made all sorts of mischief, last week, in the House of Commons. He may even have lost (or, by a strange paradox, won) the coming General Election for his party (Laborite). Insulting Frenchmen, roiling Italians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bilking, Tub-Thumping | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

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