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Word: rowe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there are two sides to every question. Some people just are not good at climbing gates", and even for those who are, a row of iron spikes ten feet above the ground offers a considerable mental hazard at nine o'clock at night. By three the risk becomes positively physical...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRASHING THE GATE | 12/19/1929 | See Source »

Into a much-disputed Senate seat-front row on the aisle-he gingerly lowered himself. On his florid face was a grim grin. He was sitting, if not "seated.'' in the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Senator-Reject | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Scholars from the Leyton County High School stood in a respectful row last week to receive the official inspection of His Royal Highness Edward of Wales. As H. R. H. passed down the line, one Geoffrey Gill, 15, piped: "Please, Sir, mayn't I have your autograph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Improper Geoffrey | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...Watrous. In the finals Farrell kept on Diegel's heels until the ninth hole in the afternoon when he knocked the wrong ball in the hole trying to putt past a stymie. He did the same thing on the next hole and then Diegel won three in a row to get his name on the radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dials for Diegel | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...Chapman (owner of the Leviathan) was washed out landing in a high wind. Anthony Hermann Gerard Fokker, designer extraordinary, was greeted with commiseration when he stepped off the Homeric, back from Europe, last week. His F-32, seating 32 persons, largest U. S. land plane, had just crashed a row of buildings near Roosevelt Field, L. I., shortly after taking off with fouled and overheated motors. The ship burned itself and two houses. Vexed, Designer Fokker declared that pilot's fallibility rather than faulty design was the cause. The pilot was Marshall Sutherland Boggs, temporary Fokker test flyer, on leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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