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Word: snakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...retirement of Mr. Hertz, last week, was complete. He resigned as president and chairman of the board of Chicago Yellow Cab Co.* He sold all his holdings to Charles A. McCullough, of Parmelee Transfer Co.. who becomes chairman of Chicago Yellow Cab Co. Knowlton L. ("Snake") Ames Jr., 33, son of the famed Princeton footballer, himself a fair footballer, recently general manager of the Chicago Journal of Commerce, becomes Yellow Cab's president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Hertz Retires | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...fate of the skunk is a problem worthy of our legislators, of the Debating Union, and the CRIMSON. A skunk is no laughing matter. The fate of the owl, the hawk, the snake, the fox and the skunk are chapters in the conservation of wild life from rugged individualism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Apropos the Skunk | 1/10/1929 | See Source »

...Foundation, under the direction of J. A. Haeseler '28, tried to catch each man in a characteristic pose. Director Barbour of the University Museum was filmed charming a dangerous snake, while Professor Merriman had his inevitable pointer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD NOTABLES FILMED IN CHARACTERISTIC POSES | 1/8/1929 | See Source »

...Snake Valley Trading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...silk. The detachment of speculation, the intensity of personal pride, the uneasiness of nervous sensibility, the urgency of ambition, the opulence of superb taste-these qualities, blending, twisting, flashing together, gave to his secret spirit the subtle and glittering superficies of a serpent. . . . The music sounds, and the great snake rises, and spreads its hood, and leans and hearkens, swaying in ecstasy; and even so the Lord Chancellor, in the midst of some great sentence, some high intellectual confection, seems to hold his breath in a rich beatitude, fascinated by the deliciousness of sheer style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Hen, Great Snake | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

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