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Word: terrorized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kennard kicked his goal in 1908, the Crimson flaunted over the Blue three times--in 1896, 1898, and 1901. The Harvardians instituted most of the new wrinkles in the games, but Yale had most of the power. The "Deland Flying Wedge" flew in 1892. This strange play was the terror of all comers, but Yale won the game because of involuntary foreign...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grioiron Chosts | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

Lawyers. Henri Torres, chief counsel for the defense, florid, bloated, dynamic, put his histrionic abilities to the test when, leaping past his colleagues into the middle of the courtroom, he brandished a revolver, produced from under his voluminous black gown. Shrieks of terror mingled with gasps met this display. Flappers sat with blanched faces; bewhiskered Hebrews rocked back and forth with supressed excitement; Ukrainians, more pallid than ever, glanced nervously through their narrow eyes. Maitre Torres, aiming at a chair, pulled the trigger?there was a dull click, followed by sighs of relief. He was attempting to prove that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Petlura Trial | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

Benediction in Georgia is a dark room in a prison. Near a table at the left a man in a frock coat is standing with his arms stretched out toward convicts who are sitting along benches. There are faces of anger, or despair, or ennui, or terror. A Negro looks at the floor hard, as if he were trying to remember something that made him sad. He is wearing a chain around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bellows Book | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

...section. Ignorant skeptics were convinced when they went to look at the picture of Perico, polo pony, "made," said Artist Koch, "in a few hours and 40 years;" at the great canvas "No More War," a picture of horses, fleeing from the sound of artillery, rearing in terror against the sharp reins of barbed wire. Artist Koch will exhibit again shortly; upon the result will decide whether to stay in the U. S. or return to Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Horse Painter | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...Central Africa, west of the Congo River, was visited by a strange terror-Dr. James P. Chapin, associate curator of birds of the American Museum of Natural History. Little monkeys chattered and cried to one another in the treetops that the white-faced hunter had taken 2,500 lives out of feathery, furry bodies to stuff them with dead, hard matter. From the green lowlands, Dr. Chapin started up the side of a glacial mountain of the Ruwenzori Range. In sight of snow, 50 miles from the equator, his blackamoors, convinced that the strange whiteness was the touch of death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Expeditions: Oct. 10, 1927 | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

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