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Word: saws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cynics shied at Personality; saw in it a highly polished variation of the copy book maxim morality through which every U. S. boy is assured he can become President. Said one: "Just like Success and the American Magazine-only more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Personality | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

President Whitman's satisfying speech traced the Association's history from its founding at Saratoga, N. Y., by a small group of men who saw that the nation's legal thought would need guidance; mentioned the understandings reached at conferences between the Association and the American Federation of Labor, looking toward the settlement of interstate industrial disputes; praised the Federal Radio Commission for "diligence and intelligence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: At Buffalo | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...Angeles district attorney, to prosecute "this woman" for adopting for herself and followers evangelical uniforms resembling those of U. S. Navy officers. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, flying from Denver to Pierre, S. Dak., described a circle over Greeley, Col., and passed out of sight. Soon Greeleyites saw a speck returning, wondered if it might be Colonel Lindbergh, again, saw it as a bird which, after it, too, had circled Greeley, was described by an Associated Press correspondent as a "giant" golden eagle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 12, 1927 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...Newark, one August Frey saw a large automobile bearing down on him. He had just enough time to get across the street-no, he didn't have time- yes, he did have time . . .! As he stupidly hesitated, the car, moving slowly, knocked him flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sep. 12, 1927 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...miles away, Captain Hamilton and his flight companion Lieut. Col. Frederick F. Minchin, denied reports that they would take a passenger. Skeptics noted a wicker chair fastened by one leg to the floor of the ship's tiny cabin. Not many hours later, just after dawn, these skeptics saw piled around the wicker chair two brief cases, two red hat boxes and a little wicker basket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: A Lost Princess | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

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