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Word: somes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Two Greek generals and Greek Senator Gheka trudged with some embarrassment into the mountain village of Kopra last week, morosely hired a wagon, rattled off to the nearest railway that would take them to Athens.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Mystery of Kopra | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

"In some parts of the Great Kizil Kum Desert, cotton was cultivated 10,000 years before Christ, but these plantations have long since been obliterated by the shifting sands. With expert American help the Soviet government intends to make the rivers in Turkestan do for this enormous barren area what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Hungry Desert | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Basically the Heimwehr demanded as the only alternative to revolution, that the Austrian Constitution be amended to strengthen the authority of the Cabinet and curb the influence of the potent Socialist element in Vienna. Since a two-thirds majority in Parliament is needed to amend the Constitution and since Socialist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Rifles at the Ready! | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Doolittle. Short and compact is the Army's best flyer, Lieut. James Harold Doolittle. Able was he, in a college boxing tournament at the University of California some years ago, to hold his own-and a little more than his own-against strapping Eric Pedley, eight-goal California poloist (see...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

An aviator man, one in the industry, will tell you, after he has blown the booster thoughts out of his mind, that very, very few of the manufacturing or transport concerns have been making money. However, he will instantly add, if they do this and that, profits will ensue after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

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