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Word: stampeding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four rules govern the contest and are as follows: Each manuscript must be signed with a pen name and accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the author's name, address and occupation. There is to be no limit to the number of manuscripts which one person may send in. Each...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CASH PRIZES BECKON VERSATILE LITERATI | 1/3/1928 | See Source »

A Babylonian tucked his curled black beard out of the way and with a wedge-tipped stylus stamped cuneiform characters into soft clay bricks, which he later baked and for security wrapped in an envelope of clay. That too was writing.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fountain Pens | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

Will Mahoney, as he waved above a flight of stairs in his perilous and finally disastrous clog, caused even famed aviators who viewed the first showing to shiver with terror. Elsewhere he made aviators, critics and common people laugh ecstatically. Trini, billed as the star, offered some sex-appeal and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 5, 1927 | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

Plain Language. First Assistant Postmaster General John H. Bartlett, who last month instructed postmasters to omit departmental slang* from their reports and to use "every day" language instead (TIME, Oct. 31), last week issued a statement to his subordinates urging them to see that letters stamped for special delivery should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Fashions in Statements | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

For handling letters the Seal-ometer sealed, stamped and counted envelopes; Addressograph stencilled name & address on them; Bircher's Lightning letter opener slit them open.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: National Business Show | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

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