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Word: wayes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Even Convict Sullivan believed that message when the priest brought it back. Possibly McGrath apologized to Cleary afterward for using him that way...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Again, Auburn | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...Half Way to Heaven (Paramount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...This film about acrobats is devised entirely for one episode which occupies a tenth of a second and takes place on a trapeze, half way to heaven. The key of the episode is a mechanical trick. Few pictures constructed on such a formula have been successful, but in Half Way to Heaven the mechanical trick is original, credible. The episode hinging on it is strenuously exciting. An acrobat climbing up his wire ladder in a tent show to do a double somersault with his head in a sack, knows that the colleague who is to catch him would heartily like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...conquered Galicia for Austria, overran Serbia. In 1916 he occupied Rumania. In 1917 he smashed the Russian armies, opened the way to the Black Sea. Only the collapse of the Western Front and the Armistice stopped him. Though a Feldmarschall, he never wore a general's uniform and pickelhaube (spiked helmet) but always the broad black fur cap of the Death's Head Hussars, whose colonel-in-chief he was. He never, even for the sake of camouflage, rode anything but the whitest of horses. Unlike Ludendorff, who now is going crazy, he never proclaimed himself a God-inspired military...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Good Old Kultur | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...American Express announced it will form American Express Bank & Trust Co. with $10,000,000 capital. Although the new bank will be incorporated in New York, each American Express office will amount to a correspondent, and, should branch banking laws be repealed, could quickly become a branch. In this way Chase may some day have a nation-wide banking system without buying out-of-town banks or forming new ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Express Bank | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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