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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Bang!" went the watchman's gun. The tombstone fell to the ground and a sheet dropped off the shoulders of one Salvador Espinosa.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

In Brooklyn, one Harry Pardee, printer, came home late, misplaced his key. Fearing to arouse his wife, he climbed to the elevated railroad station adjacent to his house, took off his coat, jumped for the roof. He missed, fell 40 feet to the pavement. Later the key, wedged in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

In Dolores Cemetery, Tacubaya, Mexico, a white ghost made off with a tombstone, was surprised by a grave watchman.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

Newspapers do not often compliment each other, with or without cause. But last week Variety, Manhattan theatrical weekly, took off its slouch hat to the august New York Times, thus: HONEST TIMES "Col. Charles Lindbergh finally sent the only photographs of himself and bride on their honeymoon to the New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Honest Butcher | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

In his plans Architect Wright has "overturned the pyramids and lengthened their lines perpendicularly." Thus, at the top the towers are much larger than at the bottom. Each tower rests on a gigantic concrete pedestal; each is supported by a core of solid concrete through the centre. Architect Wright explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Wright's Pyramids | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

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