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Word: went (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...room in the basement. On the morning of the disaster one Buffery Bogg, steamfitter, had been called to repair a leaking steam pipe. He found the leak in the film room and removed a section of the covering, but the pipe was too hot to work on. So he went out and asked to have the steam turned off. When he returned the room was filled with steam. Something on the ceiling was on fire. He turned a fire extinguisher on it, was overcome by smoke, then literally blown out of the basement by an explosion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cleveland Clinic | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

Jimmy Walker had a box but Manhattan had a police parade so Jimmy stayed at home. Walter J. Salmon, whose Dr. Freeland won the Preakness, was there and so was Publisher Paul Block, who arrived in a private car. Publisher Joseph Pulitzer went in an airplane and was greeted by Brother-Publisher Ralph Pulitzer. "Bath House" John Coughlin, owner of Karl Eitel who did not place, wore an apple-blossom shirt, necktie, hat band. Herbert Bayard Swope, just returned from England, got his red hair wet and Commander Paul V. McNutt of the American Legion had the crease rained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Kentucky Derby | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...Guineas. Back to Moortown. England, where the Ryder cup was won for Great Britain (TIME, May 6) went U. S. and British professionals last week to play in the Yorkshire Evening News 1,000 guineas ($5,000) tournament. Again, Walter Hagen lost to George Duncan. Leo Diegel won a nickname, "Eagle-Diegel." Joe Turnesa won the 1,000 guineas from sad-faced Herbert Jolly of England by holing a chip shot for an eagle 3 at the 37th hole. Other spectacular moments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: British Women's Championship | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...then began a night and day of struggle. Two more engines went out of commission. The ship reached the Rhone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Zeppelin's Failure | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

Rushing down and against her went the mistral, the draft which comes from France's coolish central plateau and ends over the warmish Mediterranean. The Graf Zeppelin bucked the mistral. The wind tossed and whirled the ship. A fourth engine went dead. Only one remained to drive her and that was not enough. Commander Eckener headed her south and floated with the wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Zeppelin's Failure | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

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