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Word: somes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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That destiny she saw at last in the cold blue eyes of Lynn Hamilton, a personable youth who had returned from the outside world to his Ohio farm. Quietly they planned a marriage which Sophie contemplated as a cure to her restlessness. But the black-eyed prodigal, son of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Smalltown | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

†Sunbursts are going on all the time. They resemble clouds from active volcanoes. To men they are visible as sun spots and have some, yet unascertainable, relation to the Aurora Borealis.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Meteorites | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

To this request even the most friendly could not respond, for while the letter was on its way, the choleric, anti-U.S. weekly Britannia (TIME, Nov. 5) had failed under the extravagant editorship of Novelist Gilbert ("Swankau") Frankau and was about to lose its identity in a merger with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Britannia | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

These bartenders comprise the ranking industry. For Tiajuana, exotic as it may sound to the dry and fevered U.S. fancy, is nothing but a couple of dirty streets of barrooms. It is almost epic in its drabness. One bar stretches an entire block and announces itself as "The Longest Bar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Al Hippodromo | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

It is generally believed that the U.S. Government closed the border as an aftermath of the Peteet "Shame Deaths" some three years back. One Thomas Peteet. U.S. citizen, and his wife and two daughters were on holiday. Drugged wine was served the girls in a bar; they were kidnaped, haled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Al Hippodromo | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

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