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Word: seene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suspicious Kandahar Afghans plump Amanullah promised last fortnight to show the famed Khirkai Shereef (Prophet's Cloak), a religious relic of great potency kept in a locked box which only "a man fit to be King" can open. The holy cloak has rarely been seen for the last 200 years. Bearded Afghans assembled by thousands for the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Cloak & Box Trick | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...compel attention to the difference such signs make in a city's trade, night-life and general atmosphere. On Oct. 21, all the Broadways of the U. S. will be darkened at a concerted moment, and then brightened slowly to a crescendo of light such as they have seen never before. That will be the high moment of the Golden Jubilee. The dimming of the lights will have been signaled by a push-buttom from Inventor Edison seated once more in his old time laboratory, every stone and splinter of which has been moved from Menlo Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Golden Jubilee | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...utterly false and without foundation." Reo's President Richard H. Scott took a page advertisement in metropolitan dailies to denounce the "pastime of originating and circulating falsehoods about motor industry," and improved the opportunity to cheer for the Reo six and to flay eights in general. He has seen no eight as good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Damage Suits | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...Newsgatherer Bath would not have seen the new arrivals attend church services Sunday morning, for, though servants, town characters, village gossips crowded the little North Haven Chapel to overflowing, neither a Morrow nor Pilot Lindbergh worshipped in public that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Damage Suits | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...Chicago, one Henry Redfeldt wooed for six years a Wisconsin maiden he had never seen, sent her $6,000. Last week he sued his landlady, said she had devised the courtship, invented the maiden, stolen the funds, written the answers to his letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: May 27, 1929 | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

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