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Word: vell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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First and only Captain of the Ambrose is squint-eyed Gustav A. Lange, who has been at sea from cabin boy to master, for 43 years. Said he in German-American gutturals last week: "Vell, it brings home a mile closer to these inbound ships now ve are moved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Ambrose | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

While political amateurs bore the world with analyses of Rivera, Mussolini and Pangalos, Mustapha Komal Pasha, magic enchanter who affixed the brim to the fez and drew the vell from the fact of Turkish womankind, goes unheralded and unsung, as if social traditions were not a thousand times more difficult to upset than political dicta...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SICK MAN'S DICTATOR | 1/28/1926 | See Source »

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