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Word: tuned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strikers, abed in the Gastonia, N. C.,* headquarters of the National Textile Workers Union, ceased abruptly early one morning last week when the snorers were nudged awake by revolvers in the hands of a band of masked men. Out into the street the sleepy strikers were marched to the tune of random shots. With crowbar and sledge hammer the invaders-several scores of them, it was too dark to count accurately-set about wrecking the flimsy frame building. Window glass crashed out upon the street and through the aperture went sailing the union's membership and financial records until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Damn Union | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

Springfield has suffered two defeats this year; the Boston Lacrosse Club won from the Gymnasts by a score of 8 to 2, and St. Stephens College triumphed to the tune of 8 points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STICKMEN WILL BATTLE WITH SPRINGFIELD TODAY | 4/27/1929 | See Source »

...this first picture made by a new and technically competent producing company, the digressions are brightly filled with shadows borrowed from vaudeville and the legitimate stage and set in motion by the music of Waring's Pennsylvanians, one of the best dance-orchestras in the world. Best tune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 22, 1929 | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...Turner is bringing a combined suit in Craig's name against Warner Bros. Company and Irving Berlin, who later copyrighted the song illegally, and a separate damage suit against Silvers. The suit against Silvers will be the more serve because he did the actual copying and then turned the tune over to Warner Bros...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: E. F. CRAIG IN NEW YORK TO BRING SUIT FOR SONG THEFT | 4/16/1929 | See Source »

...laboratory experiments was, under Stitches' supervision, the dissection of a shark that chanced to be with young- twelve diminutive sharks, 18 inches long. Shortly afterward the schooner touched at a tiny island south of Suva, where Joan, awestruck, watched a native woman bear her child to the tune of torn toms and delirious celebration. Years later, when a landlubber called Joan a water rat the old sailor rushed to her defense: "She's a girl flower, she is, with the tropic heavens fer a hothouse, and the scoldin' of the storm fer her when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skipper's Daughter | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

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