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Word: sayed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pour tea, may I add just a word? Everyone knows that I do not speak but once in a while. Sometimes when at Senate ladies' luncheons I do not say a word. I want to say a word to you. Some of the ladies who are sitting with me have indicated that South Dakota has just come on the map this summer. It has always been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Aug. 22, 1927 | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

...Sacco was too weak and too gloomy to say anything. He continued his hunger strike which had then reached its 24th day. Mr. Vanzetti said: "Well, I'm damned glad. I'd like to see my sister before I die." (His sister sailed last week for the U. S. on the Aquitania from Cherbourg.) Soon Mr. Vanzetti began to swallow liquids and, later, salads. Mr. Madeiros who had been eating heavily sat in a stupor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Respite | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

...say police placards to crooks. Fresh reason for the statement was announced by John E. Seebold of Rochester, N. Y. Aided by General Electric Co. experts, Mr. Seebold had perfected a detective camera for installation in rooms likely to attract burglars. As soon as the burglar (or any moving person or object) passes between a light sensitive fixture at one end of the room and a light at the other, the camera quietly takes any number of photographs (up to 160) of all that is occurring in front of it. Even tampering with the light by which the camera "sees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Burglar Kodak | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

...worked hard with them. His success has meant ceaseless work; and that (for the few men who like it) is easy. Politically life has been hard. He wanted to see "President Hearst" streaming across the pages of his newspapers. He' did not see it. Socially, who can say whether life has been hard or easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: President's Bible | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

...Pittsburgh, celluloid-visored Joseph Castro fell asleep in somebody's office. Inspired by his snoring, a gum-chewing office joker removed a wad of moist substance from under his tongue. "Lookit," he said, "what do you say we play a joke?" Stealthy as a murderer he approached Joseph Castro, stuck a little tee of gum on the end of Mr. Castro's nose. When spectators giggled, the joker still stealthy as a murderer, became inspired to touch a match to the little tee he had built. Dreaming of a sunny beach, Joseph gave his nose a little wriggle, opened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Camel v. Man | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

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