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Word: winds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan Coue held clinics, murmured, "Ca passe, ca passe!" and gathered up the dollars and discarded crutches, heard stutterers talk fluently, noted Coueism turn fad, society women form Coue clubs. Later they sponsored Mah Jong, talked of East Wind, not "Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 12, 1926 | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

...wind blew cool over a little, wrapped head lying on the lawn; serpentinely swayed a rope dangling from above, its lower end knotted about the lady's slender alabastine neck. No moon shone on that July night last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Looters | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

...order came. Compressed air pumps sent buoyancy to six 40-ton steel pontoons made fast to the submarine 132 feet below. Meanwhile the wind whipped up heavy combers which rolled the ships gayly. In the greysome depths eels and fishes saw the huge barnacled steel whale shift about and sway in her bed like a restive sleeper, start behemothly for the surface. On the reeling decks above workers were astonished to see the nose of the sunken monster suddenly poke through the waves and into the sunlight once again. The crews cheered. In another moment the amidships pontoons appeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Unredeemed | 7/5/1926 | See Source »

...waves, floated off casually. Far below the surface a chain with links two and a half inches thick and tested to a strain of 110 tons had parted. The work of months at the risk of many lives, all realized, had been swept away in a single moment. The wind blew fresher, the seas rolled up raging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Unredeemed | 7/5/1926 | See Source »

...down and written a not altogether respectful parody of Mr. Anderson's vein. You can just see all the gay young men of Paris laughing over it at those luncheons. One Scripps O'Neil leaves his wife Lucy and their daughter Lousy when a chinook wind blows in the window of a pump factory in Petoskey, Mich., causing some Indians also employed there to warwhoop softly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Disrespectful | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

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