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Word: short (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Likewise the President has put in a new system of buzzers: one short sharp ring brings Secretary George Akerson. Other signals summon lesser secretaries, stenographers, doormen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Telephone | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Mile. Falconetti's face is sunburned and her lips are shrunken and seem dry; thin lines mark her forehead, her rough hair, cut short, fits her head like a wooden cap. She is ugly, but her eyes are beautiful, and as her thought makes changes in her face she too becomes beautiful. At first, she seems paralyzed with amazement and terror; later, from some unexplained emotion, she weeps", and through the trial big tears run down her tanned face. Her answers in the subtitles are the same that were given by the real Joan according to the record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 8, 1929 | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...ridiculous in appearance, he yet evokes from myriads of Hindus the purest devotion, the blindest obedience Just now Gandhi is crusading afresh for a boycott of British goods. He has ulti-matumed that by 1930 India must be as free as Canada (TIME, Jan. 7) and time is getting short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Saint Fined | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...will probably be H. P. Moon. ocC. One member of the Club will accompany him, and stops will be made at New York and Philadelphia for change of passengers. On the return flight, the plane will probably delay at New York for several days, in order to allow short flight's around the city for those members of the Club who care to take advantage of the opportunity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FLYING CLUB PLANE TO BE FLOWN TO WASHINGTON | 4/4/1929 | See Source »

...clock on Soldiers Field. At present it seems probable that the infield will be composed of three veterans and a newcomer. McGrath, who captained last year's Freshman nine, broke into the veteran combination of Prior. Nugent and Donaghey and will in all probability be seen at short. Whitney, at present listed with the outfielders, was seen at the hot corner quite frequently last year so there is a possibility of his being shifted to the infield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MITCHELL SLICES SQUAD IN HALF IN FINAL SELECTION | 4/2/1929 | See Source »

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