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Word: piers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Swedish-American liner Stockholm pushed gently into its berth, the hundreds of men and women on the pier stood at attention. Aboard, on the main deck, the Sangsallakapet De Svenske (national chorus of Sweden), otherwise known as the Singing Vikings, of whom there are 52 in all, sang out the Swedish national anthem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Swedish Chorus | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...teeth of despair already in his heart, he began to see madness waddling toward him like an enormous lizard. "Then he made for the harbor at a run, the back of his waistcoat showing white as he ran. He was down on the quays, ran on to the farthest pier, and jumped straight into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Vast Drolley | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

...Herbert Atkinson Barker, whose name bonesetters use as incantation against the curses of "regular" doctors, reached Manhattan last week from Kingston, Jamaica. Yet few on the pier knew him to be the man who for 40 years has been unlimbering stiff knees, setting dislocated joints, curing flat feet; whom Great Britain knighted for his orthopedic work on War wrecks; for whom Dr. F. W. Axham lost professional caste and died last year scorned by doctors (TIME, April 19, 1926) ; who wrote the article on "Mani-pulative Surgery" in the newest version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bonesetter | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

Married. Miserosetta Macini, daughter of the only sister of Premier Benito Mussolini;* to Pier Giovanni Ricci, Fascist officer; in Rome. He (Benito Mussolini) acted as witness, gave her a ruby bracelet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 9, 1927 | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

...course of his undoubtedly extensive travels your FOREIGN NEWS Editor must surely have boarded and left enough steamships to realize that gangplanks nowadays do not "touch Manhattan" (TIME, April 11) but are run out from the pier to touch the docking ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 25, 1927 | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

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