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Word: saws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Looking eastward, residents of the Mississippi Basin saw another spectacle, at Washington. After months of wrangling, a committee of the House last week reported a flood-control measure to Congress. But the smoke of conflict, instead of trailing away, was just beginning to thicken. "The greatest fight this session" instead of a national necessity was what Congress was prepared to supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The House Week Feb. 27, 1928 | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

Cried M. le Colonel Prosper Josse: "Clemenceau was the only legislator I saw during the entire War who came within five metres of the Germans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Political Week | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

Last week, when General Theodore Pangalos was at last brought to trial at Athens, awed spectators saw that his sleek dark hair has turned a tousled white. Wearing an old civilian suit and keeping his head bent, General Pangalos asked for a few days more in which to prepare his case. The days were granted, but his chances seem slim to escape death for High Treason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Turned White | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...Manhattan, Max, a police dog, watched his owner, one Gilbert Kirkwood, a plasterer, going to sleep with a cigaret in his mouth. When he saw that Gilbert Kirkwood's cigaret had dropped and ignited the bedclothes, Max dragged the burning bedclothes away from Gilbert Kirkwood and put them in the kitchen. Then he dragged Gilbert Kirkwood, overcome by smoke, off the bed and put him in the kitchen right next the bedclothes. After this, Max barked until a policeman came to revive Gilbert Kirkwood and to extinguish both his bedclothes and the conflagration caused by dragging these from room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Putting on the Dog | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...Kansas City Ray Conger beat him and beat his record for 1,000 yards with a time of 2:11. Hahn stopped running. He walked to the tape with a disgusted expression and said that Conger stuck an elbow in him at the turn. None of the officials saw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Records | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

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