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Word: tnt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possible to contrive a detective story in which the criminal cannot be detected by a reader until the last chapter) ; Jinny the Carrier; The Melting Pot. He was once listed as the third most eminent Jew in the world, Einstein considered relatively the first, Weizmann, inventor of TNT and head of the Zionist movement, second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 9, 1926 | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

...White Pine Camp, President Coolidge and Secretary Davis (of War) discussed moving the two big TNT storehouses near Baltimore and Camp Raritan, N. J., to the great waste places in Utah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Expensive Economy? | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

Last week for nearly two days 16-in. armor-piercing shells, big shells, little shells, powder, TNT, nitroglycerine, depth bombs, whined and slashed wantonly, smashed hamlets in all directions, popped $93,000,000 worth of Government property, slaughtered many a U. S. soldier, ripped shell holes, thundered, wounded and injured over a hundred, far and near. Fleeing refugees scuttled to remote stations, men hid in shell holes, swam the Lake, lay unsuccored on the smoking fields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ad Caelum | 7/19/1926 | See Source »

Israel Zangwill, Englishman of letters: "The Jewish Tribune printed a list of the twelve outstanding Jews of the world, as chosen by vote of its readers. Albert Einstein, German physicist, was considered relatively the most outstanding. Chaim Weizmann, mann, English chemist, perfector of TNT, head of the Zionist movement, was second. I was third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: Sep. 17, 1923 | 9/17/1923 | See Source »

...besides, conceives a publicity coup. He officially denies the presence of hidden treasure about the place. The result is that the tavern is crammed with doubloon-seekers in no time at all. The whole building and grounds surrounding it are torn limb from limb by industrious axes, hammers, and TNT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Nights | 3/17/1923 | See Source »

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