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Word: swinging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...going pretty strong for a West Virginian [Newsstand Buyer Sands, TIME, Feb. 21] to get uppitty. What's West Virginia but Ohio's coal bin? Just a dirty, disheveled stretch of mine dumps and scraggly mountains, filled with a bunch of ignorants that only know enough to swing picks and drink moonshine. That's one reason you can't spend anything but Sunday on Sunday in West Virginia. Everybody's drunk or sleeping it off down there on Sunday. . . . What President did West Virginia ever produce? The nearest she came was John T. Davis4 and he moved out soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 28, 1927 | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

Married. Elizabeth P. Stevenson, granddaughter of onetime (1893-97) U. S. Vice President Adlai Swing Stevenson; to Ernest Linwood Ives, first secretary of the U. S. embassy in Constantinople; in Naples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 14, 1927 | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

Fresh from their victory over Laval, the Crimson stickmen will take on the University club sextet, on the Arena ice at 8.15 this evening. In full swing again the Harvard puck chasers are expected to furnish the strong combination captained by George Owen '23 with the best opposition it has met this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STICKMEN TAKE ON FORMER ICE STARS | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...result is that China's leaders are dissatisfied with existing conditions there. It looking for causes they find it easy to believe that foreign powers are foremost among the causes of China's troubles. The Chinese have developed self consciousness and a real nationalistic movement is in full swing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHANGHAI IN NO DANGER OPINES S. K. HORNBECK | 2/10/1927 | See Source »

After two unsuccessful attempts to swing into its 1927 hockey season, the Freshman sextet will definitely get under way this afternoon in the Boston Arena when it lines up against the Andover skaters at 3:30 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1930 SKATERS BATTLE ANDOVER ON ARENA ICE | 2/2/1927 | See Source »

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