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Word: timers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...typical training procedure: at Newark Airport small Pilot "Bill" Lester of American Airways, who is 26 years old but looks 18, takes off in a Fairchild. Hidden in the blackened cockpit behind is old-timer Dean Smith, who flew for Byrd in the Antarctic. Pilot Lester disconnects the radio and instrument-panel light from the rear cockpit, zig-zags the ship every which way for a few miles, pulls it up into a stall, lets it fall off into a spin. At that instant he switches on the instruments, calls through the speaking tube: "All right, mister, take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Blind Pilot | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

...Timer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 15, 1932 | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

...against such predatory action? Can I appeal to the U. S. Government? Can I appeal to the Editors of TIME to institute an advertising campaign (a la mode Buick Motors) advocating two-TiME families? If solicited, I am sure Mr. Rossheim would be proud to be the original two-TiMER. ROBERT S. THANHAUSER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 15, 1932 | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

Predatory Mr. Rossheim is hereby solicited to become a two-TiMER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 15, 1932 | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

...magazeen time you sint me that my old friend george curry is dead (April 25). I wish you wood write them a letter and fix it up in nice and proper language and tell them he aint dead no more than you or me. It was some other old timer in Hillsboro that died. One of them there newspaper fellers called the sheriff at Hillsboro by long distance and the sheriff could not here good and this hear newspaper feller thought he said George was dead. Anyways he aint. He's alive and well at his home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 30, 1932 | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

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