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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Holland. Dykes, windmills were smashed, thousands of acres flooded. Into The Hague limped the tug White Sea, Captain Verscheor, master, famed tugster who pulled the 50,000-ton world's largest floating drydock from Britain to Singapore, early this year, having lost his haul for the first time in, his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Atlantic Cataclysm | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Warily hockey followers appraised the teams of the American and International sections of the League, trying to figure out which two teams may play off for the world's championship next spring:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hotter Hockey | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Ottawa Senators. A team with a bad reputation for defensive tactics which will not get by under the new rules, the Senators revised their style to start off at the head of the International Group.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hotter Hockey | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

New Balls. President John Heydler of the National League said that home-runs in his league dropped off 45% when umpires roughened the dead white, glossy balls with dirt. He suggested that if manufacturers left the leather covers unfinished instead of polishing them, pitchers would be able to handle the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

As an explanation Lord Kylsant said that "public attacks" had hurt the company although its earnings for this year would be as large as during 1928. Yet canny Londoners, awaiting the auditor's report, were inclined to believe Viscount St. Davids' attack upon his brother had been more than a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Sinking Sea Lord | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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