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Word: ve (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Venus for a ride, and the next minute you have to give some Chinese jade a bath." Then a really potent epigram was coined. Suddenly turning from the tub in which the jades and vases were being bathed, he shook a pipe-stem at the Venus. "I've seen lots of signs in museums in my time, but I guess they ought to stick a 'Hands Off' sign on her all right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Hands Off" Sign Belongs on Venus de Milo, Declares Mr. Hendricks Describes Discobolus as Waiter Heaving Dishes | 3/9/1927 | See Source »

...have wonders here which I doubt can be equaled anywhere. For instance, we have wells here in Calhoun County, W. Va. that produce pure gasoline, that is pumped by machinery from the deep wells. Can Ohio match this? (They've 'flowed' for a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 7, 1927 | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

...although you've got the farmer's goat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Horseplay | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

...This will make the second cage I've seen put up in my day here. Back in 1897, they put up the one we've been using down here, when they gave up playing on Jarvis and Holmes Fields." Dennis reminisced. "Those were fine fields, up where the Law School is now; and they used to have some fine ball games on Holmes. When we couldn't get in we used to climb up in the willow trees and see the game fine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foreman's Next Job Will Not be Building Baseball Cages--Wants a Hard Job--"Nothing to This," He Declares Scornfully | 3/2/1927 | See Source »

...When I come into a meeting sometimes I feel just like a sponge, dripping with honey and milk. I just give everything I've got. I'm weak when I come out. But I go and pray to Jesus and get all charged up like a battery." Thus spoke alluring Aimee Semple McPherson in Manhattan last week when she began her conquest of sin there. Said an oldtimer: "I've heard 'em all ... She's the only one of the lot can touch Henry Ward Beecher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: All Charged Up | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

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