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Word: saws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reports were first current (TIME, Feb. 6 et seq.) that 12,000,000 Chinese seem likely to die of famine before next Spring, most citizens of the U. S. confidently left the whole ghastly and appalling problem to the Red Cross. If they thought about it at all, they saw in their minds' eye long lines of Chinafolk, gratefully receiving huge bowls of steaming soup from white clad, starry-eyed young Red Cross nurses. Rude therefore was the shock received by many contributors to the American Red Cross last week, when that organization's executive head, Judge John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Sure to Die | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

Miss Stoner's story was that she had given Mr. Loeb an $8,000 ruby bracelet to be repaired, that she later saw him with another woman who was wearing the bracelet, that when she protested Mr. Loeb punched her in the chest and face, kicked her and generally abused her. She caused Mr. Loeb to be arrested, took her story to court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prodigy | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

Among other things, he saw Greenwich Village before the realtors "improved" it. He attended the joyous nocturnal picnic given on top of the Washington Square arch by a beautiful girl called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: C'Toonist | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...saw all the Presidents from Cleveland on and talked with several; also Senators, famed preachers, Mark Twain, P. T. Barnum and many another less famed but, to him, equally important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: C'Toonist | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...Joseph Heights, Ky., in order to get rabbits for a stew, Bernard Meiners went hunting with his .gun. Soon he saw Oily, a horse belonging to the Sisters of Notre Dame, moving about in the grass. Supposing Oily to be a rabbit, Bernard Meiners took aim, fired, killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 10, 1928 | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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