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Word: irregular (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the snowy roadway, darkened in irregular patches by the parked automobiles of townspeople who had turned out to help, McGrath looked toward the wing of the grey stone block next to the warden's office, the wing where the rebels were barricaded. He could charge in all right, get across the yard to the main hall maybe, but no further. They would have the steel doors of the hall closed. He studied it until he thought of a plan, then took Father Cleary aside and talked to him. . . . Automobiles for their escape? The gate open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Again, Auburn | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...Business, not Astronomy, is the loudest and strongest change urger. For under the present irregular system, accounting is beset by problems when it tries to compare the costs of months whose working days vary in number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Sol | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Fifty-nine years ago when ten-month-old Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, swung a royal rattle, and 13-year-old Achille Ratti declined irregular verbs in a Milan seminary, the troops of small Vittorio's grandfather, Vittorio Emanuele II, King of Sardinia, recently proclaimed King of Italy, stormed and breached the walls of the Papal city of Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAPAL STATE: Kneeling Majesty | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Poet Jeffers lives in a rocky tower on the edge of the continent at Carmel, Cal. He is one of the few living poets who write extended tragedies. Some consider him the most impressive poet the U. S. has ever produced. His verse is in long, unrhymed, irregular lines, usually powerful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tragedian | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Earth's Rotation Irregular...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROBLEM OF ORIGIN OF SUN'S PLANETS STILL BAFFLES SCIENTISTS | 12/6/1929 | See Source »

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