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Word: saws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into Germany, replacement doughboys stole his greenish Marine overcoat, stars and all, mistaking it for a German officer's. He later found it draped comfortably around an Army mule." ... I was General Neville's aide at the time and place and saw the overcoat before and after taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 11, 1929 | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Boris listened to Reed Smoot call Charles Curtis "A child of the Wrest." He saw an attendant bend Time to the Constitution by setting back the Senate clock first ten minutes, then seven, to keep its hands from reaching noon too soon. Microphones were scattered about everywhere. In a glass booth David Lawrence of the United States Daily was telling the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Chief | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...name in the papers more often than that of the football captain. This was partly due to the fact that he looked harder for his name. But this, kiddies, is not a tale with a moral. Peter did graduate; and at Commencement as he looked about him and saw the worn and haggard expressions of those men who had worked hard, or who were in posts of importance he laughed; imagine having done all that work when you could have been enjoying life! No wonder people grew old. And after all what one went to college for was to enjoy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 3/9/1929 | See Source »

Near Challenge, Calif., one Roy Slette saw the bushes move, perceived a mountain lion, picked up a stone (he had no gun), flung with care, struck the beast "between the face and eyes," slew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Mar. 4, 1929 | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...capita consumption of paper should also increase. Careless school children and flighty stenographers would spoil countless sheets headed January 29 or August 30. Busy executives would dictate letters beginning, "Yours of the 30th instant received and contents noted." Thus paper men saw paper-profits. One of the convention delegates suggested as a campaign song for the new movement, "Will you love me in December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Sol Cheered | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

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