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Word: vera (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lieutenant Noville, flight engineer of the America, left Cleveland at 16 to join the Navy and sail around the world. Bluejackets remember that it was not long before he became a mighty oarsman, football player, broad-jumping champion of the Navy. After helping to occupy Vera Cruz in 1912, he learned to fly, was assigned to the spectacular Esquadrille Candinana on the Italian front during the World War. He has long been a friend of Commander Byrd, who put him in charge of the Spitzbergen base during the North Pole flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Four Men in a Fog | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

That if Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth should run for Congress she would certainly win; that most women now in Congress owe their position to being widows or wives of onetime Congressmen, not to their own merits; that women in Washington "pull the strings of power"-all this said Miss Vera Bloom last week in Washington. Miss Bloom, daughter of Congressman Sol Bloom, Democrat of New York, spoke at the second world welfare conference of the Women's Universal Alliance. Miss Bloom also said: "Mrs. Coolidge is worth $1,000,000 a year to the Republican Party. Her grace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Million | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

...EUGENIO VERA Guayama, Porto Rico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 2, 1927 | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

Consternation reigned in Reno. Paris and even Vera Cruz or Mexico City had charms outrivalling those of the Nevada beauty spot beloved of Mary Pickford. Tom Mix and others of the beau monde, who just love American home life--the more homes the better. Reno Rotarians felt that something had to be done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RENO'S THESE | 3/23/1927 | See Source »

...following review of the current number of the Lampoon was written especially for the Crimson by a member of the senior class at Radcliffe College, who does not wish to disclose her identity and signs herself Alma Vera Soror...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JESTER'S BELLS FAIL TO TINKLE AS LAMPY NAPS | 2/3/1927 | See Source »

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