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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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"No man is drunk until he has to hold on to the grass to keep from falling off the face of the earth."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 2, 1929 | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

The photograph shown in conjunction with your P. M. A. article makes me think you have the Prince confused with his sparring partner. When did the noble gentleman shave his heavy black mustachio off? J. FRANZ FISHTER

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 2, 1929 | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Without the scowl but with butchery in heart, Meat-Dresser Campolo last week met in a Brooklyn fight ring the recurrent Thomas Heeney of Australia, who since his battle with onetime Champion Tunney has been married, grown fat, taken maulings in two of his three fights. The prodigious Campolo, dominating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Guaranteed Ferocious | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

In the final race of a German-U. S. series off Marblehead, Mass., aboard the U. S. entry Oriole, Designer Paine pulled ropes, gave advice, helped 18-year-old Elizabeth Hovey to win. Futile was the victory, however, for the German yachts had piled up a lead in four earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Yachts | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Checkerman Long, 24-year-old telegraph clerk, has long been a checker prodigy. At 15 he watched a national tournament knowingly, critically. Irritated, national contenders challenged him to play. He beat them. Two years later he won the U. S. Championship. Two years ago he was on a team which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Piddlers | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

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