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Word: pocketsful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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They are returning to where Leonardo started, armed with the knowledge of the atmosphere, of air currents, air pockets, waves and equilibrium which he lacked from never having gotten more than ten feet across the earth in his disappointing struggles. The principle of the glider, Leonardo's principle, has been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DAEDALUS AGAIN | 4/7/1923 | See Source »

Jack Pickford: "Prohibition agents arrested two men leaving my Los Angeles home and entering an auto carrying liquor. Two checks from me were in their pockets. I guess I shall be summoned to testify before the Grand Jury."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: Mar. 24, 1923 | 3/24/1923 | See Source »

Against such opposition doubly strengthened by Stinnes' control of the press, Dr. Wirth had little chance either greatly to centralize the control of the federal government or to bring early stabilization of the mark. The industrialists, in their role of opposition, permitted the mark steadily to decline thus filling then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WIRTH OFF! | 11/16/1922 | See Source »

Soft heads are much commoner than hard ones, even today. They seem to have learned nothing from the war. They are now proclaiming that the way to prevent war is for us to disarm--not necessarily concurrently with the other nations, but alone, as an example for the other nations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOFTENING OF THE BRAIN | 10/27/1922 | See Source »

And still we flock abroad. The month of May this year has soon all American passport records broken with some 25,000 issued. The total number for the year to date is about 77,000. That means 77,000 persons have started for Europe to spend an average of about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 6/22/1922 | See Source »

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