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Word: tins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public doesn't pay to hear music, rather to see personality. Kahn plays many instruments, but how? His arrangers and players make the music good. Will you ask a few musicians if this is not so-your New York office is near enough to 46th Street to hear tin pans rattle...

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

...Another splendid lesson that comes to her with scouting is the ability to play. She is not one of the girls who goes motoring in the country with the family on Sunday, helps scatter papers and tin cans around, sets the phonograph going and assails the surrounding haunts of Nature with its clamor. She knows how futile canned music can be when one may listen to a lark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCOUTS: Girl Leaders Meet | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...miles the tempest careered before it had expended its mighty energy. At Yokohama, northeast, a cyclone scurried, twisting 'and twirling, in its wake, howling too. Off went tin roofs, shutters, sun-blinds; down came chimneys, many small houses and buildings; and over went freight cars. So rapidly went the roaring blast (60 yards wide) that many people working indoors were not aware of the huge whirlwind until it was raging 100 yards or so away. And so great was the debris that the railways were blocked for hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Woe | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...makers made a rule: "The catcher or the first baseman may wear a glove or mitt of any size, shape or weight. Every other player is restricted to the use of a glove or mitt weighing not over ten ounces and measuring not over 14 inches around the palm." tin the house where President McKinley died was born (20 years earlier) Devereux Milburn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 19, 1927 | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

Observers at Cherbourg last week watched the faces of French dock-hands, porters, innkeepers, thronging citizens. Yes, as the singing, shouting legionaries landed, with their tin hats now replaced by straws, their packs by suitcases, their guns by canes, cigars, toy horns, the faces of Cherbourg smiled genuinely, the faces of Cherbourg grinned, laughed aloud, yelled a welcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Legion Abroad | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

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