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Word: ro (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sebastian Spering Kresge sells Odo-ro-no, oilcloth, paper, pins, ribbons, rods, soaps, suspenders, tacks, thread, ungents, union suits, valentines, vaseline, wire, xylophones, yarn, yardsticks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Kresge Glasses | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...official cheer of this sorority: Ring, ching, ching. Ho, hippy, hi. Ra, ro, arrow, Pi Beta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Coolidge Week | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...Deep on their fronts engraven sat public care; in their eyes flickered determination. When all had reached their places, one arose and, assisted by a large chorus, caused the proscenium to reverberate with the swelling notes of "How Firm a Foundation, Ye Sa-aints of the Lo-ord", with "Ro-ock of A-ages" and old-time hymns. The odor of sanctity had settled strongly upon that lay temple by the time Atlanta's legal luminary, Lawyer Thomas E. Scott, cleared his throat and solemnly introduced the first speaker on the program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: In Atlanta | 2/1/1926 | See Source »

From Fez-it is reported that the officers of the retiring Marshal felt tears start to their eyes as he announced his decision. With him, they declare, a "great modern Ro-manf proconsul" passes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Lyautey | 10/12/1925 | See Source »

...duties as editor of The Rabbit Fancier's Gazette. One afternoon, while he had been swimming in the Tyrrhenian, the prow of Mrs. Aldwinkle's sailboat had knocked him unconscious. The lady had thereupon made him her guest and, convinced that by conveying him to the palace in her Ro-Ro? she had saved him from drowning, had fallen in love with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barren Leaves | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

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