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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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His desk clear, he hurried off to Illinois to make a waterway inspection with Governor Louis Lincoln Emmerson. With him he carried a speech on waterways for delivery later in the week at Minneapolis, whither he and many another bigwig were supposed to go to help a shrewd man named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No. 3 Man | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Mr. Shearer appeared on the Washington scene in 1924 as a naval expert, the inventor of a one-man torpedo. When the U. S. S. Washington was towed off the Virginia Capes for sinking by airplane bombs, he rushed into court, vainly sought an injunction to prevent the Navy from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Lobbyist Shearer | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

"I heard a gun go off and a bullet whizz. I saw Johnny fall. He didn't cry; he just lay there still. I heard Helen cry out: 'Johnny, I'm shot!'. . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Town & Country | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

As they drove up to Her Majesty's palace at The Hague, the delegates saw only a large, immaculate wooden house, with a severe square courtyard opening directly off a public street. The house was full of crisp, sweet-scented Dutch flowers, primly arranged in tall vases. There was drink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hague Haggle | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Code Fought. Never does prudent Motorman Henry Ford differ openly with the Chief Executive of a land where he is selling cars. All the same a large extension of the Ford Assembly Plant in Mexico City is not being proceeded with. Scare-heads in the Mexican Press declared last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Tyranny v. Tyranny | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

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