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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though the arrow is exclusively a weapon, whereas the hatchet is primarily a tool, loyal Scouts raised a hearty cheer for "B. P.", saw him off in his new "Penny Rolls-Royce" (purchased from international Scout contributions of one penny each).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Golden Hatchet | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Riding high, in ballast, the Falke clanked out of Hamburg harbor for the coast of Poland. The Falke's crew became interested three days later, when they rolled idly off a Polish beach at dawn while motor boats came out to meet them carrying 125 swart, excitable passengers smelling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Falke Filibuster | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Off Ocean Park, Cal., one "Porky" Jacobs sat in an anchored floating barrel, stuck out his bearded face after more than 100 hours, announced himself world's sit-in-a-floating-barrel champion.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Coates Off. Conductor Albert Coates of London finished his guest-conducting of the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra in Lewisohn Stadium, Manhattan, 80 minutes before his boat sailed for Europe one night last week. He still had time to make a speech, and said, "It isn't an orchestra. It'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Music Notes, Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Suddenly hearing a low crescendo of oices, the officer whirled toward the new gate leading from the Mosque Omar to the lane, shouted a hoarse phrase at the drowsing Arabs. For a moment they stood horror-struck, then fled. Through the gate poured a screaming, howling mass of Arabs, flaunting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: On Tisha B'Ab | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

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