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Word: phoning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fortunately the President of China, Marshal Chiang Kaishek, is quick. Not five minutes after he received a frantic phone call from Dr. Wang, there was heard in the streets of Nanking the piercing siren of the presidential Packard (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Treaty Riot | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...post office officials when queried as to the amount of correspondence that passed between Harvard men and Radcliffe students admitted that it would be impossible to ascertain. The possibility of frequent phone calls would naturally make any such figures an uncertain gage of the correspondence passing between the two institutions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley Girls Outclass Smith and Vassar in Number of Harvard Letters They Attract--Bryn Mawr Fourth | 11/23/1928 | See Source »

Would you care to have a list of the Victor and Columbia Musical Masterpieces released to date? Yours for the asking--either at the store or over the phone. (Univ...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECORDS | 11/1/1928 | See Source »

...John Smith, master detective, who has appeared suddenly in their midst. "Forged!" he leers again, as the sergeant unearths a wallet stuffed with bills. A low moan from the upper hall; the police lumber up to find another body: the ambassador's son. Detective Smith goes to the phone: "Give me transAtlantic, operator−I want Scotland Yard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

Abie's Irish Rose, The Strange Case of Captain Ramper, Dawn, The End of St. Petersburg, Lights of New York (Vita-phone) are all curious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chart | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

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