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Word: stoker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Long-Lugger. The Baltimore & Ohio has 21 engines named after Presidents. They haul the B. & O.'s Capitol Limited and National Limited and other crack trains and last week the President Pierce, with a mechanical stoker feeding Pittsburgh seam coal into the fire box, made an experimental trip over the 786 miles between Chicago and Washington, † Normally four locomotives, changing at three stations, are necessary on the Chicago-Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Locomotives | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...eyes. Is she smuggling diamonds? Yes, she's smuggling diamonds. Three or four years ago a film photographed, acted, plotted as effectively as this would have been called, inaccurately, a masterpiece. Audiences who saw it last week thought it was a fair program picture. Best shot: the little stoker (Clyde Cook) playing the accordion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 18, 1929 | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...Patriot (Emil Jannings): a crazy Tsar trusts Lewis Stone. Lonesome (Glenn Tryon): Two bathhouse keys clink on the beach. The Docks of New York (George Bancroft): Night-life of a stoker. The Night Watch (Billie Dove): Murder on a French battleship told in retakes from the trial. The Singing Fool (Jolson): Eight mammy-songs. The Air Circus: Planes on the Vitaphone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Citations | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...Docks of New York (George Bancroft)?A stoker on shore-leave marries a girl he pulls out of the water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Citations | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...Docks of New York (George Bancroft)-A burly stoker weds on a lark, perseveres by choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Citations | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

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