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Word: reds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just the sort of argument that one would expect to hear if an average U. S. daycoach should be stalled between stations and a better-than-average red-faced Irish-American started talking loudly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Representative Debate | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...Majesty Ibn Saud, warlike Sultan of Nejd and King of the Hejaz, came tidings last week of his flourishing son the Amir Faisal, 19-year-old Viceroy of the Hejaz. The tidings were conveyed 500 miles by motor caravan from the Red Sea town of Jidda in the Hejaz, to the Sultan's inland capital, Riyadh, in Nejd. There was it made known that the enlightened son & Viceroy had finally caused to be obliterated that notorious imposture, "The Tomb of Mother Eve," at Jidda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARABIA: Tomb of Eve | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

Blood spilled in the name of freedom and self-rule saturates the pages of history. Many an ardent patriot has bitten the dust in this cause since Moses led his party across a courteously-disposed Red Sea to the hoped-for freedom of the promised land. Many a sturdy Gaelic cranium has succumbed to violent pressure for the sake of autonomy in the Emerald Isle. But at least we have come upon the group that is loftily indifferent to self-government on whatever terms. This group simply does not care...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 2/25/1928 | See Source »

...Saturday night, February 27, 1926, the speedy Crimson track team again outstripped the invading hosts, placing in every event and totaling 59 points to its credit. The Hanoverian dark horses were able to romp home with 30 1-2 points, while the Red and White Ithacans trailed with 26 1-2 points. The meet abounded in great performances and two new records were set. Second only to the great uphill fight made by Kane in the relay, after he had previously broken his own Triangular meet record in winning the 600-yard run in one minute 16 and four-fifths...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Final Triumphs Add Lustre to Triangular Meet History | 2/21/1928 | See Source »

...guards ran through the circle of prisoners and separated the two men who were fighting. William Reid was panting and furious. "Red" Moran, seriously wounded, looked at the men around him with the amazed, pitiful expression of a man who has just learned a hideous secret. He lifted his hand and pointed at William Reid. "He stabbed me," Thomas Moran whispered to the guard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Yegg | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

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