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Word: scraps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ought surely to have noticed that Mac spells his name with the capital D. Ishbel is not 24, but 22. She did not read greetings from her father. She made her own speech at the great Century Theatre meeting of the Jewish Daily Forward, without a scrap paper, expressing in one sentence her father's regrets for his absence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Enthusiasm | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

...continue for two more years the Protection of the Republic Bill, debarring Wilhelm II from returning to Germany. 2) His Excellency General von Pawels announced that under his direction there have been destroyed the last of the fortifications along the Polish frontier which Germany agreed to scrap in return for concessions from the Allies (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Mentality | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

...lack of coordination of any structural basis would not for a moment, I fancy, be tolerated by any of our more logical neighbors across the Channel. For all that I believe our system, or lack of system, has certain great advantages. It would be a profound mistake to scrap the essentially local and individual basis of our system in favor of some uniform logical scheme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In East Africa | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

...that I took the title from Sullivan and I held it until '97 when Bob Fitzsimmons made the solar plexus famous with his blow that earned him the crown. It's queer but no one but doctors had ever heard of the solar plexus before that scrap, but ever since he floored me with that left of his it has become a catch word in boxing. In spite of the fact that I held the title five years after that I really had my greatest fight with Jefferies in 1901. Fitzsimmons wouldn't give me a return fight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORBETT HOLDS BOXING TODAY IS A WANING ART | 4/12/1927 | See Source »

...Scrap Book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 4, 1927 | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

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