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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The warm, shallow waters of the Adriatic off smart Lido Beach lapped up with unconcern, last week, a profound secret. Locked in the brain of an elderly gentleman who died of a heart attack while in swimming, the secret had to do with the dark, strange, warlike people, apparently neither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Dead Secret | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Selling health on the instalment plan was last fortnight suggested to the Chicago Medical Society. President-elect Dr. James H. Hutton suggested that, physicians, when they are called on a new case, estimate the total cost of treatment, have the patient sign notes for the expected bill. The notes would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Collection Stunt | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

In Lakeview, Chicago district, a boy, seven, fell off his front steps, was taken to a hospital. "What's your name?" asked the interne. Said the youngster: "Orange." A nurse brought him an orange. ''What's your name?" asked she. "Apple," replied the seven-year-old...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jul. 15, 1929 | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

In Rice Lake, Wis., one J. F. Baskin last week offered $100 reward for information leading to arrest and conviction of the person who has been cutting off the tails of the Baskin cows.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jul. 15, 1929 | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

When Marie of Rumania made her famed U. S. tour (1926), Her Majesty was scheduled to appear over the National Broadcasting Co.'s chain. She was to give one of her many endorsements. Temperamental, she at first attempted to call off her appearance, then arrived at the studio a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Radio into Talkies | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

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