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Word: spats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Again, last week guns spat. Four bodies were carried to the undertaker's. Deputy Sheriff Ora Thomas, who left Herrin last fall, after an affair in which six were taken to the undertakers, gave notice that he was going to return to town. According to reports. S. Glenn Young, his feud enemy, Ku Klux Klan leader in a number of dry raids, paraded the streets all one day waiting for Sheriff Thomas; with him were a dozen supporters; towards evening, Thomas met Young at the European Hotel; someone-said to be Young-opened fire. Young, Sheriff Thomas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KU KLUX KLAN: In Herrin | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spat? | 11/24/1924 | See Source »

...What will he do next?" was the question in university circles when Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn resigned the presidency of Amherst College last year after a lively spat over educational theories with the alumni and trustees (TIME, June 25, 1923, et seq.). Last week the Boston Transcript published an answer to the question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Meiklejohn College? | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

...There followed a brief spat over the U. S. policy of collecting Latin-American debts. Banker Albert Strauss, of Manhattan, opposed Dr. Leo S. Rowe, Pan-Americanist, cited the Monroe Doctrine as the business man's friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fourth Week | 9/1/1924 | See Source »

Fifth Day. Before the 200-metre sprint, Head Coach Lawson Robertson spat fire at his fleet charges, enflamed Scholz and Paddock so that they went blazing by Harold Abrahams (their extinguisher in the 100-metre race) and E. H. Liddell (the Scotch parson who had refused to compete in "the century" because it was held on Sunday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Olympiad | 7/21/1924 | See Source »

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