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Word: saws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ever cautious. He will sequester himself in his S street home, strive to cast no shadows at all. ¶Mr. Hoover and his party skipped all over southern Florida last week. Bad weather drove him back from his west coast tarpon fishing. He inspected the Okeechobee flood area, saw tent colonies, praised sugar cane and truck growing in low black muck, heard politicians wisecrack about the election and fish for federal aid. At Palm Beach he was feted at the Bath and Tennis Club. At Fort Lauderdale, 3,000 excited children mobbed him, swept him two blocks from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Into the Sunset | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...Alphonsine Morin, across the street, saw two men, hands over head, walk out of the garage, followed by two uniformed policemen with leveled guns. Obviously a raid and an arrest. She watched captors and captives enter the blue car, which flashed down the street, passed a trolley on the wrong side, melted away in traffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Chicago's Record | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

gation, but the two mainstays of the local team saw action in neither of these clashes. George Owen '23, now one of the leading defensemen on the Bruins, and J. P. Chase '28, who were mainly responsible for the clubmen's 4 to 3 win over Harvard, did not make the trips to New Haven. Owen was no longer a member of the team which the Crimson upset in a return battle, but Chase, last year's captain, was one of the outstanding players on the Garden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hockey Team Engages Club Outfit in Rubber Contest | 2/20/1929 | See Source »

...ship. Does that girl make goo-goo eyes? Yes, she does make goo-goo eyes. Is she smuggling diamonds? Yes, she's smuggling diamonds. Three or four years ago a film photographed, acted, plotted as effectively as this would have been called, inaccurately, a masterpiece. Audiences who saw it last week thought it was a fair program picture. Best shot: the little stoker (Clyde Cook) playing the accordion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 18, 1929 | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...facts of what the Prince saw are unpalatable both to the Government and to the powerful interests that support the present administration. The Prince of Wales is distinctly unpopular with the mine owners. Something like consternation has been caused among them at what the Prince revealed on his tour. It is a serious coincidence that almost before the Prince returned to London a regular newspaper barrage was laid down [by the Conservatives] with a view to discounting as far as possible the facts as to the condition of the miners that were put under the searchlight of the Prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Wales Gagged? | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

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