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Word: welled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Taft, as President, had had the Smithsonian, a quasi-Federal institution, under his authority. As a learned gentleman he wished it well. So, believing that the Institution would get handsome royalties, he subscribed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Smithsonian Imbroglio | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Operating with General Escobar, last week, was the fierce and redoubtable General Francisco Urbalejo, a full-blooded Yaqui Indian. Carnage of a particularly gory sort was predicted when the half-savage but well-armed Yaqui Insurrectos and General Escobar's rebel troops clashed with the Federalistas near Torreon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Again, Mexitl | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...Paso and Juarez?queer twins. El Paso is a clean, Babbitt city, with little skyscrapers; but dirty Juarez is a town of low adobe structures where drink and vicious company are easily found. In Juarez last week General George Van Horn Moseley, U. S. A., acquitted himself right well as a Hero of Peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Again, Mexitl | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Money is a sine qua non of the research which birth-control leaders have under way. Last fortnight Mrs. Sanger gathered 500 well-to-do and persuaded New Yorkers in a ballroom of the Hotel Plaza. To stimulate donations to support

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Birth Control | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...only U. S.-bred winner (U. S.-owned horses have won it twice: Stephen Sanford's Sergeant Murphy, 1923; A. Charles Schwartz's Jack Horner, 1926). Rubio was shipped to England as a racer, failed to do well, was sold for $75, hauled a hotel omnibus for a year, and then, in 1908, came to glory. There was Moifaa, an ugly grey gelding, shipped from New Zealand with high hopes in 1904. There was a shipwreck. Moifaa was believed drowned. But one fine morning two Irishmen-fishermen-found the horse on a barren island. They trained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Horses, Horses, Horses | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

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