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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nashville, Tenn., Thomas Overton put a cocklebur marked with a red string in Edwin Woods's automobile, found the bur later on Mrs. Overton's dress, shot Edwin Woods five times, killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Apr. 29, 1929 | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...they had 2,060 miles to go; getting there, from Hampton Roads, Va., to Colon, Panama, was the main thing. None the less, the two big seaplanes vanished over the southern horizon seven minutes apart, droning for Cape Hatteras at a smart 80 knots or so. The destroyer Overton, the minesweeper Sandpiper and cruiser Saukee, strung down the Atlantic and stationed off Cuba, turned on their searchlights as dusk fell, tilted their beams at agreed angles into the drizzly night. The cruisers Raleigh and Cincinnati and the minesweeper Swan, stationed at intervals in the Caribbean, stood by to scan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Oil Hogs | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...left, besides the Messers. Canby, Boyd and Mencken, Critics Carl and Mark Van Doren, Burton Rascoe, Louis Untermeyer (poetry), Ludwig Lewisohn, Joseph Wood Krutch. There is unique, felicitous Dr. William Lyons Phelps. There are notable book conmentators and appreciators; John Farrar (The Bookman), Mary Colum, Isabel Patterson, Grant Overton, Harry Hansen (vice gusty Lawrence Stallings on the N. Y. World), George Sterling (San Francisco), William Allen White, Heywood Broun, Allan Nevins. And there are many creative writers whose discussion of one another's work stands for much that is good in U. S. criticism-William McFee, Christopher Morley, Thomas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

...Nevada, along the Muddy River, extending for some six miles from St. Thomas to near Overton, was discovered the remains of a great Pueblo or rather pre-Pueblo, village. Governor Scrugham of that state, interested in archaeology, came across several historical references to a buried city. He organized an expedition under the scientific direction of Mr. M. R. Harrington of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation (Manhattan). Last fall, the site of the buried city was found. Excavations undertaken by Mr. Harrington and Dr. Kidder of the Smithsonian Institution, and financed by the Heye Foundation, have indicated that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Diggers | 3/23/1925 | See Source »

...mile run, Harvard will take another first place with Tibbetts, who, if pushed at all, ought to make a sturdy assault on the dual meet record of 9.34, made in 1916 by Overton of Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Track Experts Busy Forecasting Find Yale Sure Winner Today But None Can Agree On Score | 5/24/1924 | See Source »

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