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Word: stampede (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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That stupid man took M. Balieff to America. This week Balieff opens in Manhattan for his fifth U. S. season. For himself and for that stupid man he has made endless thousands of dollars; he has stamped his personality on the U. S. amusement mind as one of the few...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 17, 1927 | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

It is certain that there are more unknown infantrymen with their feet on the laboratory firesteps of medical science than in any other field of endeavor in the world. Not only an outbreak approaches an epidemic does the public wonder how many nascent Black Plagues have been stamped out in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNSUNG | 10/13/1927 | See Source »

Tickets to these "opennights", for which there is no charge, must be obtained in advance by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to "Open Nights", Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge. Applicants must state for which night the tickets are desired, as the tickets will be assigned for one night only.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBSERVATORY TO HAVE AN "OPEN NIGHT" SERIES | 10/4/1927 | See Source »

Down a gangplank to Manhattan last week there strode a youngish man carrying a suitcase. He? Col. Ralph Isham, book collector, Boswellian, millionaire?was not surprised to find reporters crowding around him on his arrival from England. In his little suitcase he had some old pages, scrawled over in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: An Ebony Box | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

"Special Handling." A refinement of the parcel post was lately introduced. For 25c extra, parcels for either urban or rural delivery can be specially stamped, marked "special handling," and assured of receiving the same treatment as letters. "Special Handling" parcels are kept out of the sacks containing ordinary parcels; they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Postmen | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

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