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Word: periodical (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Streets of Sorrow. Here is a German film, about which, in the interests of international good will, the less said the better. The locale is Vienna; time, post-War period; heroine, a daughter of the poor but honest; villain, a son of the rich but rancid. Result: booby, bosh and hokum. Fast and Furious (Reginald Denny). If a young man has had an arm broken, a skull cracked, a spine dislocated in an automobile accident and happens, therefore, to be so panicky that the mere squawk of a klaxon sends him scurrying up a tree, could anything at all ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Jul. 18, 1927 | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

...Constitution became operative 60 years ago? Significant facts: 1) The land which was "our Dominion" to Queen Victoria, in fact as well as phrase, is now a great nation, legally co-equal in political status with Great Britain, and independent within the British Commonwealth. 2) During the Jubilee period the population of Canada has increased from 3,500,000 to 9,500,000; railways from 2,278 miles of track to 40,000; industrial capital from $77,000,000 to $3,000,000,000; and occupied farm lands from 30,000,000 acres to 140,000,000. 3) Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Diamond Jubilee | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

During this period the hotel roof was peopled with wide-eyed, neck-cramped gazers at 25c per head. Others, equally curious but less solvent, jammed streets, stopped traffic, broke down fences, trampled lawns. Concessionaires opened hotdog, coffee, soft drink and peanut dispensaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Twelve Days | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

...special feature of the CRIMSON spread will be a special wire direct from Yale Field in New Haven to the News room of the CRIMSON. Full details of the game will be sent by innings, and period at the scene of the Spread. Refreshments will be served at the regular spread, from 5.30 to 7 o'clock, during which time there will be dancing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JAPANESE LANTERNS TO LIGHT CRIMSON SPREAD | 6/21/1927 | See Source »

...first period of the Harvard--Princeton match was scoreless, and was marked by good up and down the field playing on the part of both teams. W. H. White '28 was the first to tally with a shot from scrimmage near the goal in the second period. This advantage was quickly eradicated by Borden, number 2 rider for the Tigers, who scored once in that period and then was largely instrumental in the scoring of his team's two counters in the next chukker. During the last three periods Borden continued to dominate the play, scoring three goals himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIGERS TEAR TRIUMPH FROM CRIMSON RIDERS | 6/21/1927 | See Source »

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