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Word: twist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dragon will crawl across future maps of Missouri. Its head will be at Bagnell, in the central part of the State. Its tail and claws will twist 129 mi. westward. It will be labelled Lake of the Ozarks, largest artificial lake in the world, created by a dam across the Osage River built by Stone & Webster for Union Electric Light & Power Co. (North American subsidiary). St. Louisans and Kansas Citizens will have summer shacks and duck shooting lodges along its 1,300 mi. of shore line. St. Louisans, who will consume a large part of the dam's annual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Lake of the Ozarks | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

Strongest were rumors that Pinko Mr. Chen may emerge as Foreign Minister of the projected coalition. He has been much at Moscow, would give Chinese policy a sharp leftward twist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Secessionist Movements | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

...right. If you went up with Wilbur, you learned to work a lever at your right hand, to make the plane go up or down. Wilbur had one like it at his left. A third lever between the seats "warped" the wings, made the plane bank and, by a twist of the wrist, swung the rudder. Once you learned that, there was no use in going up with Orville because he would make you sit on the left where the levers were just reversed. Later, when they had more than one plane, each of the brothers developed his own system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Joy-Stick | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

...Manhattan inspectors of the pigeons' guts found that the birds had fed on poisoned grain, spread on windowsills by a newsboy who, from some neurotic twist, hated pigeons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Manhattan Portent? | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

...secretary. The Milles Folke Filbyter grips a weary horse between his knees. The horse, swinging sideways to avoid rough going in the road, is balanced by the figure of Folke, who leans outward and downward, searching the road in another direction. There is a tragic bend and twist and movement to the piece seldom found in an equestrian statue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Milles on Tour | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

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