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Word: tilled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Escobar promised me $250 a flight," said practical Capt. Barber. "I tags along with him till that guy owes me $6,000 for combat flights and bombing work. Then I skips, and I takes the bus with me. I'll get mine all right. That plane cost Escobar 16 thousand. I've got a couple of prospects right here in town'll give me six thousand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Amorous Red Mohan | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...full of curiosity. Chastised for heresy and impiety, accused of Calvinism, drunkenness and gluttony, he retained his influence with a sufficient number of cardinals and bishops to acquire two curacies near Paris. Bored, no doubt, as cure, he shortly resigned both posts and disappeared from anecdote till on his deathbed, surrounded by grieving friends, he joked at their grief. Much that is lost of Rabelais' personal history crops up in his story of "his second self," Panurge - cozener, roysterer, rhyme ster, philosopher, companion to Pantagruel, "a very gallant and proper man of his person, only that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vagabond Monk | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

Today Coach E. J. Brown '96 will name a squad of about two University crews. These will practice as equals in rating till next week. When the first and second boats will be chosen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 150 POUND CREWS BREAK EVEN WITH FAST KENT RIVALS | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...Vice President is the administration's prime diner-out. His presence as the highest-ranking guest is sought by all hostesses. Vice President Curtis has dinner invitations stretching through till June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Gann Goes Out | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...subject matter is too familiar; perhaps the perspective too short. Unheralded by newspaper publicity, the first of the highlights were the successive experiments in mechanics that culminated in the historic Lizzy, Model T. For five years Model T was turned out of the Dearborn factory with increasingly unbelievable speed till it became "a landmark on the national scene as familiar as the eagle on its dollars and the cornfields on its plains." But in 1914 Ford caught the public, that is the journalistic imagination, by his announcement of a $5 minimum daily wage for labor that claimed only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ford, A Focus | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

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