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Word: pocketsful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is the fifty second of the series and brings joy to the hearts of those who have for so long respected the opinions of Joe Forecast '26. For that redoubtable oracle has again crashed through with she truth and nothing but by predicting even such a victory. And in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lampoon Zanies Bite Dust to Traditional Score of 23-2-- Crimson Players Pierce Percolator Defense in Pinches | 5/22/1926 | See Source »

In a British laboratory a white-haired savant bent, over a microscope, lifted a sad, tired face to the glare of a high-powered electric lamp, sighed. He plunged his hands deep into his dressing-gown pockets, sighed again. He was Dr. Faust, despondent, wanting to die, preparing the poison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Song | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

Admiral Fiske experimented with Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad, a work of 93,000 words. He had it printed to be read in his reading machine. In its reduced shape, it was a 13-page pamphlet, 3½ inches wide, 5½ inches long. How big will an encyclopedia be when shrunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Again, Ding | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

"France has never faced the question of taxing her people to meet her national requirements. By permitting France and Italy not to pay their debts while imposing on the British taxpayer the annual sums which those countries ought to pay, we are in fact subsidizing out of the pockets of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sharp Exchange | 4/5/1926 | See Source »

The crowd about the drug store placed their watches in their pockets. They knew what would happen now. So did I. Leaving my banana soda I went to look at the performance. It was always the same. One after another of the men quit his station by the steps to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/2/1926 | See Source »

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