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Word: saws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eventually news-sleuths saw Mr. Young. Arriving in Manhattan after a mysterious absence in Arizona, Mr. Young held himself virtually incommunicado, merely said he had not had time to confer with "anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Germany Can Pay! | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...Porter. "Hale's Tours" was only a travelog ?kinetic scenes of Mont Blanc projected on a screen in a gallery which rocked and swayed to simulate the movement of an observation car?but The Great Train Robbery was a real story that ran for twelve minutes. You saw the bandits riding on their raid, the station agent working in his office. "Hale's Tours" was in debt and Zukor told Brady that moving pictures would make up its losses. Backed by Brady, he started a chain of cinema "palaces" in Newark, Boston, Pittsburgh? empty stores made into theatres with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paramount's Papa | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...sent her the same message which Father William had sent Ballington: get ready to come back to England. Commander Evangeline sent him the same message Ballington had sent Father William: I won't. This time, friends in the U. S. made things so hot for Brother Bramwell that he saw fit to reinstate his sister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Salvation Rift | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...commissioners arrived one by one speculation was furious. Aunt Evangeline and Niece Catherine were both named as candidates for Brother Bramwell's sabre. But it was reported that the sick man saw the writing on the wall and would resign, at the same time tossing under the ingle-log the fateful envelope with his name of names. It was acknowledged that the Army had reached the gravest crisis of its history, with reorganization ... or, at worst, disorganization ... to result...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Salvation Rift | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...bulky launch against the Liberty. The crew watched a jai alai tournament and cock fights. Finally they took off for Santiago de Cuba, stopping en route at Manzanillo to avoid a squall and because Publisher Patterson liked the name. At Santiago they visited Spanish War battlefields, ate melons, saw the straits where much-kissed Hero Richmond Pearson Hobson sank the Merrimac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Joyhopping Publisher | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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