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Word: upping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The story is in the main a common one. The young struggling actor, born in the middle west, struggles up from a position of practical starvation to the top rung in the movie world. Throughout the whole narration one is struck with the romance of his life. Hart surely saw...

Author: By B. B., | Title: BOOKENDS | 6/12/1929 | See Source »

The apparatus for the Hooker Impossibilities tricks consists of a small metal and glass frame, snugly holding a pack of cards, standing on a tabaret. Any card named by any member of the audience rose from the pack. A glass globe was put over the frame, a deck of cards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Merlins | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

So when he was a man, in the '80s Harry Dean bought the schooner Pedro Gorino in Norway. For a while he traded, making money, saving it. Then one day he met a certain Portuguese official and was surprised to hear him say, after a little palaver: "I am...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Trader Dean | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

Yet, gloomy though the situation appeared at the close of last week, the market opened this week not with a further decline but with a frenzied rally. Wild was the excitement in Chicago's wheat pit. Opening prices showed variations of five points at different parts of the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Too Much Wheat | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

Coach Sharp has not yet made up his mind definitely as to his starting lineup but it will probably be as follows: No. 1, J. P. Cotton '29 or T. B. Glynn, ocC.; No. 2, T. E. Gerry '31; No. 3, F. A. Clark '29; No. 4, J. P. Mandell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLOISTS STAGE FINAL HOME PRACTICE TODAY | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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