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Word: rangeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Indescribable was the confusion. When William Crawford rang the final gong at 3 o'clock, few traders heard it. Exhausted brokers knew it had been a record day, climaxing a record week. They knew they would work all night and all Sunday to catch up. Somehow, the Exchange had managed to turn over 6,641,250 shares of stock in Manhattan's wildest day of speculation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Wildest Day | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...kind he was, even then! Yes, every morning when the school bell rang for recess, Paul would produce three rolls from his knapsack, eat two, and always give the third roll to a very poor boy in the class below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Cherry Tree v. Third Roll | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...Matthew J. Patterson, portly Vareman, State Legislator, boss of the 19th ward, who found himself jailed for five years, fined $7,500. "Extortion, bribery & conspiracy" rang dismally in his ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Blinks of Philadelphia | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

Several participants in the test rushed from their seats in acute distress, and 24 hours later two of those who fled reported that their ears still rang, pained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Prussian Scream Test | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...Berlin. President von Hindenburg sent several. Sick-abed German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann sent his confidential secretary flying to Hermann Müller. Plainly, official Germany was amazed, staggered. But Aristide Briand repeated that now wou'J be a good time to negotiate, now while the welkin rang wit!: SCHWEINEHUND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Schweinehundl! | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

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