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Word: thirsts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Their hooting and vandalism were only halted at dusk by intense thirst. Back in their cells, they yammered through the night. None escaped, no guard was hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: At Leavenworth | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...tended to raise the standard of female chastity." "There is no doubt that the various forms of love-sexual, parental, paternal, filial, and social-are kindred emotions." "Other things being equal, the savage regards the satisfaction of the sexual instinct exactly as he regards the satisfaction of hunger and thirst." In giving psychological data on chastity, kissing, love, obscenity, orgy, oath, curse, blessing, Author Crawley. though Nordic, writes in a style itself marked by almost complete freedom from Nordic taboos: that is, he writes scientifically. The science of his insight is occasionally relieved by its poetry. This is more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Savages Studied | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...refresh passengers on the next eastbound trip. The westbound trip, with a full European stock, will be wetter than the eastbound trip with its limited medicinal supply for sale. Likewise the chief steward will have to exercise rare judgment in making his purchases abroad to estimate the exact thirst of westbound passengers and thus reduce to the minimum the surplus to be discharged at the 12-mile-limit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Wet Leviathan | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...Delaware corporation. The present management took hold in 1923. Chairman of the Board is W. C. Bradley, Columbus, Ga., textile man and banker. President is Robert W. Woodruff, who came to Coca-Cola from Cleveland's White Motor Co., where he was vice president and general manager. Popular thirst for Coco-Cola is apparently unabated; pleasing are its prospects for 1929. "Died on -, at Wesley Memorial Hospital, Asa G. Candler. Funeral obsequies will be observed at his late residence, 1428 Ponce de Leon Avenue, at 11 in the forenoon on . Interment will be at West View, private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Atlanta's First | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

When that tired old Spaniard, Juan Ponce de Leon, landed with flags and thirst and prayers of thanksgiving upon the southeastern strand of North America, he at once inquired after a specific against old age and mortality-a miracle-flowing spring of everlasting youth and happiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: On the Map | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

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