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Word: watts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Burning down at us are 44 1,000-watt lamps over the ring . . . all is darkness in the muttering mass of crowd beyond the spotlight. . . . The 'mike' is fixed on the ring floor in front of us. . . . The crowd is thickening in the seats. . . . There's Jim Jeffries . . .Mayor Thompson in a cowboy hat . . . Irvin Cobb . . . John Ringling . . . Tex Rickard in a beige fedora. . . . It's like the Roman Coliseum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Voices | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

...people can imagine. But last week, Dr. D. D. Knowles, 28-year old research engineer of the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., demonstrated before unbelieving eyes in the Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan, a device that runs on one-fortieth of one fly-power?in electrical parlance: one-billionth of a watt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fly-Power, Knowles | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

...known from his 18th year. Newton Diehl Baker, Secretary of War (1916-21), that short, slim, dark man whom Democrats call the "fighting pacifist" is too good a speaker to withdraw from the public rostrum, but his efforts were concentrated on earning fat legal fees from Cleveland industrialists. Thomas Watt Gregory, Attorney General (1914-19), prosecutor of trusts, had resigned two years before the end came. He returned to Texas; legal fees consoled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: CABINET PUDDING | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

...Thomas Watt Gregory, scholarly, reticent, made no statement. But he told friends that he favored Smith and would give him his wholehearted support. In Manhattan (busy with the many-million-dollar Goodyear case) Newton Diehl Baker peered at newsgath erers through horn-rimmed spectacles. With great precision he remarked: "Of course I know both Mr. Burleson and Mr. Gregory intimately. . . . Their stand for Governor Smith is extremely interesting. . . . But 1928 is a long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: CABINET PUDDING | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

...Squall?A thousand-watt Mamma invades a Spanish household...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showing in Manhattan | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

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