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Word: went (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington. Berry, the Prime Minister's valet, and Inspectors Walter Dew and Victor White, his Scotland Yard attendants, may well have been surprised to hear the cannonading and bugle-blowing that went up as their chief, self-styled "missionary of peace," detrained in Washington to find a full-dress military reception. Green, Blue, Red. After visiting the British Embassy and pausing about 75 minutes, part of the motorcade reformed and the Prime Minister was taken to the President. He waited in the Green Room while Ambassador Howard went in to see the President in the Blue Room. Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Thalassocrats | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

Whenever Princeton passed, a purple shirt was in the way, but after playing even all afternoon Princeton stopped passing, slammed eight plays through the line to beat Amherst by one touchdown and the goal that went with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Oct. 14, 1929 | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

Judges Victor Raynard Woolley and W. H. Seward Thompson (with Judge Joseph Buffington dissenting) went on to explain that "Transportation by the seller is a mere incident in the sale and necessary to its completion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Incidental Transportation | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...dead. Flustered, Mrs. Higbie flubbed her chip-shot and on the next hole, climbing out of a bunker from which her ball had not climbed, she ran her fingers through her hair, pressed her wrists against her temples and with a sigh said softly, "Oh, dear me." Then she went over and congratulated Miss Collett. Next day Collett beat Mrs. Opel Hill, and the day after that took the finals and her fourth national title by beating plump, blonde Mrs. Harry Pressler, who asked people particularly not to call her Mrs. Harry Pressler but Leona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Oakland Hills | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...prices he raised Wrigley scouring soap to retail at 10? instead of 3? and gave dealers an umbrella with every box they bought. He added baking powder to his line, and threw in a cook book or a box of chewing gum with every can. Finding that the gum went better than the baking powder he concentrated on that and gave away with it cash-registers, cheese-cutters, scales and desks. Often his premiums wiped out his profits and he never made much money until he started to advertise, first in small town papers and store windows, then on billboards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: World Series | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

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