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Word: reds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paper. "Buy a Post, lady." "No, thank you." I answered. "Oh, buy one," he insisted, "why not?" "Well," I jokingly answered, "I'm afraid it's a bit too yellow to interest me." "Yellow! why lady, you're color blind. This paper's green and red...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 31, 1927 | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

...Other less famed trucks that were absent: Gotfredson, Hahn, Henney, Hercules, Hermath, Kankakee, Lathrop, Master, Menominee, Michigan, Oneida, Oshkosh, Red Ball, Sayers, Standard, Stoughton, Tiffin, Traylor, Vulcan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Manhattan Show | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...into the cold water at Catalina Island, one day last week and turned their numerous, goggled, and determined faces toward the unseen California mainland, 2 miles away. Day faded. Light came out on the shore. Now an then on the bow of a tug a trainer lit a red flare to show that his swimmer was out of the race. Slowly, doggedly, the rest splashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Swim | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...went the splashers. They sucked food through' rubber tubes. They listened to the cheerings of their followers. The red flares of surrender were going up often now. Few were left to flay their ways through the black water. Only two of the men-George Young, 17-year-old Canadian, and huge Norman Ross of Chicago-still faced the mainland. Between 3 and 4 miles from shore Swimmer Ross sighed finis and groped for the gunwale of his boat. That left George Young alone, and he succeeded. After 15 hrs., 44 min., 33 sec., he reached Point Vinvente, Calif., losing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Swim | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...will tell you he was born on the Indian Ocean. At 6, enamored of red circus wagons, he followed them from home; was soon a tight rope walker ("thus,: set, prance, pretend to pitch, up again- ah, the split!") An enemy cut his tight rope; he fell; killed two people. Worse, it tore his painting forearm open. ("You see the scar? Like a shark bite!"). He roars anecdotes about his old pal,Jesse James; tells that his back shows 200 knife and bullet wounds, and that there are two dozen bullets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Man | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

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