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Word: rowse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Two weeks from tomorrow Harvard will have its second race of the season when it races over the Charles River Basin course with Cornell, which promises to be better than the eight turned out from Ithaca in recent years. The resemblance of the old Courtney swing is evident in the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD ROWING RIVALS FACE FOES | 4/26/1929 | See Source »

When a linotype operator makes an error he has to complete that line of type before he can make a new line. The easiest thing for him to do is to run his fingers down the first two vertical rows of his keyboard. The result is the emergence of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Etaoin Shrdlu | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

Tom Russell, the stud groom of Edward of Wales's stable stood at one side of the straw-covered arena of the Leicester House Repository at Melton Mowbray in the heart of England's hunting country. Rain was drumming on the roof and a dozen policemen strove to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Under the Hammer | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

On the outskirts of each village the royal motor halted and its occupants alighted in mud and slush. Resolutely the rubbers waded, and the bowler advanced toward drab little rows of tiny cottages, some containing only one room and an attic. The village of Winlaton was the first major halt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: This is Ghastly! | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

Family Rows. Whatever causes were alleged, twice the family of General William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, has been bitterly estranged, in each case over management of the American Army.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Salvation Rift | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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