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Word: three (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rowan, Iowa, Mrs. A. L. Aldrich has had three husbands in ten months, losing the first two by death and disappearance respectively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Turnip | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...When I took my first bicycle tour in Germany, I noticed that the German wheelmen carried a whip in a receptacle attached to the handlebars. Upon inquiry, it was for dogs. I carried no whip, for l found a more excellent way. When chased by infuriated dogs, which happened three or four times every day, I waited till the monster got close. Then leaning over. I spit in his eye, becoming with practice uncannily accurate. The animal invariably retired. It wasn't the heat, it was the humidity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...Columbia. S. C., a jury deliberated the guilt of one George Buckhalter charged with possessing liquor, drank 47 bottles of the evidence in three hours, then brought in a verdict of guilty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Turnip | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...Peter Pan." Author Huxley is cold, caustic, reasonable. Even his epigrams have ceased to be annoyingly clever. If he still shocks, it is by the force of his idea rather than by his modern manners: "Normality is only a question of statistics." Other books: Antic Hay, Two or Three Graces, Point Counter Point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reasonable Aldous | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...Piper's Son" will teach children to steal pigs. They call "Little Jack Homer" bad-mannered. They say that "The Cow that Jumped Over the Moon" is cruelly improbable. Mrs. Winifred Sackville Stoner Jr., herself a child prodigy (she "used a typewriter" at the age of three), has tried to attack Mother Goose constructively by promulgating informative jingles, rhymes that "represent life" (TIME, Jan. 12, 1925). Example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Goose Dispute | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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