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Word: trims (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brookhart, Blaine, Borah, Frazier, Howell, Johnson, Dill, La Folle"?. Shipstead, Nye, Wheeler, all come within the category. There is little intellectual or moral fibre in any of them. They pother, trim and hedge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Progressives Flayed | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

Patrick Jay Hurley of Tulsa, Okla., to be Assistant Secretary of War. Mr. Hurley, dapper, trim, cheerful, born in the old Indian Territory 46 years ago, began his military career as a captain in the Indian Territorial Volunteer Militia. During the War he fought through three major offensives, was cited for gallantry at Louppy, won the D. S. M. A trained lawyer, he has enriched himself in Oklahoma real estate, Tulsa banking. He is married to the daughter of Admiral Henry Braid Wilson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Appointments | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Today "Sam" White keeps in trim by playing golf, a game in which he is not required to slide in the mud on his face. An important executive in a great corporation, he was most circumspect in commenting further on the new fumble rule. Said he: "Admittedly it will help to establish more clearly the superiority of the stronger team insofar as it removes the possibility of scoring through flukes or breaks of that kind. True enough, such cases are rare but important games and even championships have been decided in that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fumble | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...given a choice of going to Ithaca for the Indoor Tournament or of taking a southern trip during the Spring recess. In view of the fact that the latter plan will afford more men a chance to participate in matches, and will offer a welcome chance to get in trim for subsequent matches, the team has chosen to take the southern trip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD NOT TO COMPETE IN INDOOR TENNIS TOURNAMENT | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...newspaper advertisements throughout the land appeared his defiant signature and photograph. His message in these advertisements was: "I light a Lucky whenever I am tempted to eat between meals. . . . The activities of a newspaper demand good physical condition. I find Lucky Strike an immeasurable aid in helping me keep trim and fit. ... Toasting makes Lucky Strike the cigarette of joy and benefit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Swope's Smoke | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

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