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Word: tins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hinted at it (in a quiet voice, sweet as distant bells) and finally, just before supper, openly rebelled. It was because of the child, Addie, of course, not Mrs. Fippany's health at all. And Mr. Fippany surrendered by telling Breaksteel, the beagle puppy, they would give up trading tin pans and cups and gaudy Bibles and lithographs and pain-killers and perfumed hair-kink removers for chickens and eggs and milk and things, and go to the biggest town there was?New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fippanys* | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

...pound watermelon, perambulating in a tin washtub was sighted by railroad men at Fitchburg, Mass. They told reporters. Agog at its clearing papers, which named President Coolidge as the addressee, the reporters heralded by wire the approach to White Court of the ponderous aqueous gourd. ķAt White Court the President presented Lieut. Reginald de Noyes Thomas, of Boston and Squantum, Mass., with the Herbert Schiff Memorial trophy for having been aloft last year 583 hours "without serious accident," longer than any other naval airman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Sep. 7, 1925 | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

...Gold can be reduced to a thinness of 0.00008 mm. Tin can be reduced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Inventions | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

...because his name has been printed in "tin" on the running-boards of 12,200,000 flivvers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Ford Speaks | 7/27/1925 | See Source »

Tracked in the Snow Country. Best of all the cinema dogs is Rin-Tin-Tin. He is herein occupied in joining a pack of wolves with whom he is presumably related and tracking the fanged fury who killed his master. All in the cold countries. Good if you like canine romances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 27, 1925 | 7/27/1925 | See Source »

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