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Word: tom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Newport News, Va. It was a boiling hot day under a blazing hot sun, but Texans thrive in such weather. There were two good Texans looking the part, Senators Morris Sheppard and Tom Connally. Through the crowd came tripping a little Southern maid, all flowers, Miss Elizabeth Holcombe (daughter of a former Mayor of Houston) followed by a maid of honor. She struck the steady prow of the monster gingerly with a flask of bottled water. She struck again. No damage was done. Up stepped manly Homer Lenoir Ferguson, President of Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (see col. 1), took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Northampton & Houston | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...will start by discussion for a third per cent ad valorem duty on imported birdseed. Taking the affirmative side will be Tom Heflin, with a birdseye view of the mistake of allowing the Vatican more territory and a motion to prevent Al Smith from building the highest building in New York. Then will be a two weeks' discussion on prohibition, followed by ten days of Arizona Senators denouncing the Boulder Dam. "And by Christmas you won't know whether the birds got any seed or not.'' The prophet, Mr. Will Rogers, was wrong. The tariff bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Birdseed & Cat-Jumping | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin of Alabama publicly pined for an encounter with Congressman De Priest in the Senate restaurant. The Senator "calculated" that to "punch De Priest in the nose" would be worth at least 50,000 Alabama votes for him in his hard fight for re-election next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Bigger & Blacker | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Eichemeyer, learning that Employe Steinmetz devoured mathematical treatises even more readily than Tom Sawyer, allowed him enough liberty to make his great discovery, the Law of Hysteresis.† This brought Steinmetz kudos from the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and a permanent throne behind the scenes of the electrical industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Protean Gnome | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...distilling any drama from the subject Author Cobb is not the man. Had he written Uncle Tom's Cabin he would have omitted the bloodhounds. Here is as much of his story as hangs together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cobb on Corn | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

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