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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Two Greek generals and Greek Senator Gheka trudged with some embarrassment into the mountain village of Kopra last week, morosely hired a wagon, rattled off to the nearest railway that would take them to Athens.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Mystery of Kopra | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Doolittle. Short and compact is the Army's best flyer, Lieut. James Harold Doolittle. Able was he, in a college boxing tournament at the University of California some years ago, to hold his own-and a little more than his own-against strapping Eric Pedley, eight-goal California poloist (see...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Painter Orozco is almost a pure Spaniard. He dresses like a U. S. druggist, wears thick glasses, a huge mustache. In boyhood his left hand was blown off by a firecracker. Critics have used him as a butt for their most malicious onslaughts, attributing to him the "soul of an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Intrinsically Native | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

At Berlin an ambitious, shrewd sexagenarian last week asked the public insurance fund to pay for a Steinach reactivation operation upon him. His chief plea was that old age is a common ailment.* Astounded insurance executives fubbed off the old man's demands. To grant them would set a precedent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Brain Juice | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Died. Arthur S. Allen Jr., 22, Senior at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, owner and sailor of the sailboat in which Artist Rockwell Kent and party were wrecked this summer off Greenland (TIME, June 24); at Tarrytown, N. Y. Alighting from a bus, he was run down by an automobile.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

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