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Word: snow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...colored pictures include eight of the famous Currier and Ives lithographed scenes of western trains going thru fires, across the prairies, stalled in the snow, and other scenes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 12/5/1928 | See Source »

...Robert ("Will") Wood of Lafayette, Ind., is a small-town-lawyer and professional politician, old-style. Aged 67, a bit withered, inclined to testiness and taciturnity, he has served his party as chairman of the committee that is charged with keeping Congress Republican. Now he will succeed the late, snow-polled Martin Barnaby Madden of Illinois as chairman of the potent Appropriations Committee (House end of the so-called Pork Barrel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Last of the 70th | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...President Grant slipped on that," Mr. Twiggle explained. "Here's a piece of snow that snow collectors have offered me a pretty penny for, but I wouldn't any more sell it than I would sell my right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Loping | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...think you're making a big mistake," I told him. "I think the snow is worth more than that ear. You'd be a fool not to sell. After all, you'd have your other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Loping | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...South Pole, last week sent radiograms -to the Lockheed Aircraft Co.: "Both Lockheed [Vega] [mono] planes performed splendidly on first Antarctic flight"; to the Wright Aeronautical Corp.: "Whirlwinds [motors] performing perfectly on first Antarctic flight ever made;" to the Hearst papers, his backers: "Mild weather has melted snow on landing field, so tests were made with wheels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: First Antarctic Flight | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

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