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Word: saws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Later Correspondent Morley saw the same caboose, with Feng himself inside, "going through to Peking at the top speed possible nowadays on a Chinese railroad . . . about 17 miles an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Chang, Feng, Wu | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

Then Dr. Mock was consulted as to whether it were possible to do anything for the boy, who had been showing a keen intelligence and an unusual ability for design. His wooden Santas, shaped with a scroll saw held between his cheek and shoulder, were already quite famed. His sketches were admirable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Arms | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

...Saw Him Disappear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOEL WILL TELL OF MALLORY'S DEATH ON MOUNT EVEREST | 2/26/1926 | See Source »

...Christopher's emotional control, bordering on stolidity, was the antithesis of her neurotic nature, which was of a lasciviousness so intense as to be quite "pure." A Catholic, she could not divorce him. An old school Tory, he would not divorce her. He set his jaw, closed his mansion, saw his father commit suicide, his mother die of grief, when he was bruited a maquereau, (wife-seller). His code, so ancient that society could not recognize it, commanded silence. He took the blame, pretending to have liaisons of his own. When, furious at her failure to make him wince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Parades* | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

...longest English word I ever saw is disestablishmentarianism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Words, Words | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

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