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Word: sands (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five years ago there was only sand and a few pines on this spot. But Mr. Bok caused a slender Gothic tower, of pink Georgia marble and tan Florida coquina stone, to be erected. Delicately balanced in the top is the largest carillon in the U. S.? At the tower's base is a pool, surrounded by exotic trees and shrubs. Mr. Bok calls this place the "Taj Mahal of America." It was to dedicate this U. S. Taj that President Coolidge had gone to Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: U. S. Taj | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...Will sleep two comfortably and luxuriously if they don't dislike each other." Sea Sleds are priced under a thou sand dollars; outboard motors, sold separately, bring the prices to the neighbor hood of $1,100. Model 18 has a minimum-guarantee speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Motor Boats | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...play: the first because the music was almost wholly written for the pianoforte, not orchestra with voices, and was supposed to be played at the tempo originally indicated; the second because the incongruity of seeing Heinrich Heine and Giacomo Meyerbeer cavorting about the stage, not to mention George Sand fainting and a rather picturesque but wholly unconvincing ending to the whole, strikes a false note. Perhaps, if one could look upon the production as purely imaginary, if one could forget the historical and musical associations which the dramatis personae call up, the enjoyment of the audience might be greater...

Author: By H. F. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/16/1929 | See Source »

...just walk away from the dancing, this way, across the tennis courts. The stars are out, aren't they? Why, I can carry it. Well. The pines look dark and cool there, don't they? Yes, but I think it's more like a poem by Sand-burg: "In the dusk, in the cool tombs." Tombs of what? Oh, tombs of all the summer boys like you, who say so much they don't mean...

Author: By G. K. W., (BY OUR HANDY MAN) | Title: THE CRIME | 1/12/1929 | See Source »

...Morgantown hills around the University is fine glass sand. The state's glass and glassware industry, with $50,000,000 production yearly, looks to the laboratories for pure research in glassmaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Turner Inaugurated | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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