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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sirs: Yes, I know what TIME is-and I abhor it. I never subscribed; it was sent to me by an ill-advised female relative. WALTER LOWRIE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not for Preparation | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...Yes, he was the best man ever born in the Union, and old Freddy Caneny is the only man there ever knocked him down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coachman to the College Tells of Halcyon Days When "T. R." Was His Fare--Freddy Only Man to Floor Best Man in Union | 1/19/1927 | See Source »

...only unconsciousness and nothingness. He goes home. On the other side of a door is his wife Pia, who had become absorbed in her duties, in things and whom he had somewhere lost upon the way. "Perhaps he would have felt her waiting. . . --he might have felt it, if . . . Yes, if he had not only by chance stained the white jacket of that book...

Author: By E. L. Hatfield jr., | Title: IN SEARCH OF THE KEY | 1/18/1927 | See Source »

Excitedly the figure in the rawhide boots advanced: "You mean Black Jack* Pershing. Well, shake hands with your old private that used to peel potatoes for you. Yes, Sir, General-in the Sioux Indian campaign, buck private in Seventh Cavalry at Fort Niobrara. Black Jack himself! Yes, sir, all the ducks you want. I'll be danged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Black Jack | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...feminine voice say, "Hello, London? Sir Evelyn." A sharper feminine voice replied, "London ready." Said he into his transmitter, "Good morning, Sir. This is Mr. Gifford in New York." Sir George Evelyn Pemberton Murray, Secretary of the General Postoffice of Great Britain, in London, replied, "Good morning, Mr. Gifford. Yes, I can hear you perfectly. Can you hear me?" Reassured, Sir Evelyn said, "Splendid!" Mr. Gifford read a formal statement. There had been a hot race among U. S. bank presidents, actresses, businessmen, newspapers to be first to talk to London. Who competed and who won, his company refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Eerie Voice | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

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