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Word: turning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would find himself in the President's telephone ("Main 6") and cloakroom or, beyond that, in the Cabinet Room with its long low reddish table, set about with black leather chairs.* Instead, he marches right rear to a door letting him into another corridor. Now he must turn to the left. To the right is the way the President goes when returning to the White House (via the basement) or when going out to his posinground to be photographed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Description | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...that her sin found her out-or rather, Ernest had found her out-Milly resolved upon expiation. The united Botts offered her the opportunity. Determined that Titford township should not interpret Ernest's bequest as a Bott scandal, the family council decided that each in turn should harbor and make much of Milly. Before Milly had nearly gone this painful round, her sin was thoroughly expiated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Backwash | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...even willing to concede the B. & O. one of the railroads (Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh) which the Van Sweringens own. The position of the New York Central is doubtful, since the New York Central also has a 25% interest in the Reading and may not be willing to turn over its holdings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Balance of Powers | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...America because they have freedom of selection--they can choose the people they want to live with as a more or less unified group and they have no one to blame but themselves if the group is not congenial. Under the Harvard "House Plan", if a group didn't turn out to be congenial (and most of them wouldn't) only the donors could be blamed and it would be "just too bad that the boys can't get along together...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Syracuse Says Thumbs Down | 3/2/1929 | See Source »

...propeller motor pulls the autogiro across a flying field the forward motion sets the vanes revolving swiftly, like a great pinwheel. As they turn they create a lifting surface equivalent to a standard plane's wings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Pitcairn-Autogiro | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

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