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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tooth. It weighed two pennyweights, worth less than $2 in coin value and not more than $5 as dental gold. As a golden rivet, however, its intrinsic value was incalculable, for it | was made to be fastened into the highest j part of the biggest ("master") rib-ring of the biggest dirigible yet planned-the ZRS-4 which the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. was to start building this week for the U. S. Navy, with ceremonies which, however, the funeral of Senator Theodore E. Burton at Cleveland delayed a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Gold Rivet | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Lord Nestor 0.92 Dormy Blue Rib. Turk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tobacco Smoking | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...later the temperature rose rather abruptly to a higher level and on Dec. 12 there was evidence at the extreme right base of effusion which had commenced between the lung and diaphragm. Drainage by means of a rib resection was performed on the same day under general anaesthesia-gas, oxygen and ether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Crown | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...tons of ham, three tons of bacon (Armour & Co., etc.); Sumoro orange juice (Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc.); popcorn (Excel Electric Co.); Life Savers (Life Savers, Inc.); cough drops (William H. Luden, Inc.); 1,500 Ibs. of kippered herring, two tons of corned shoulder, two tons of corned spare rib, two tons of pork sausage, etc., etc. And no toothaches will mar their pleasure, since every explorer has dutifully attended a dental clinic, where even the suspicion of a cavity threatened the loss of a tooth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Byrd's Plans | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

...wealth and a wife (Aileen Pringle); Allan is possessed of liabilities and a gold digger (Gwen Lee). The two women cannot tell the brothers apart, so one woman's husband becomes another woman's prey. Meanwhile Adam's wife, termed by the subtitle writer "his spare rib," almost floats to the wrong bosom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Aug. 22, 1927 | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

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