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Word: unlocked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high-walled U. S. Naval Base in Brooklyn, N. Y., where are stored the Atlantic fleet's supplies. Out leaped six men. A guard felt the tickly touch of revolver muzzles, swung open the gate. Into the wide Naval Depot yard swept the cars. The guard was forced to unlock the door of the eight-story main building. Then the raiders trussed him up, plastered his mouth with adhesive tape, locked him in the Depot detention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Jobs oj the Week | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...like your victory?' . . . Well, my soul revolted. I thought over my life, the many unworthy things I have done to others, the injustice, the wrongs I have been guilty of, the human hearts I have wantonly hurt. ... If society will let me, I want to unlock that barred door and for the rest of my life try to get nearer the spirit of Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: In San Francisco | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...German necessary for the degree requirements and the demands of study in an important language of science. To accomplish this work is a heavy tax on, both the university officials and the student body. Men are kept back from advanced study until they possess the necessary key to unlock the storehouse of much knowledge. Considerable time, as well, is spent in elementary work that might better be done in lower schools where the mental discipline would be more keenly beneficial to younger minds, and where there would be no time taken from other more advanced subjects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VORWARTS | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...night of the murder, the Dictator-King of today was a mere student prince in St. Petersburg, and shortly after ward a page to his Tsaric majesty Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias. Presumably he did not know that Lieutenant Petar Zivkovitch was about to unlock, stealthily, a palace back door in Belgrade, and admit the assassin of Alexander Obrenovitch and Queen Draga. As a Karageorgevitch, however, Dictator-King Alexander can scarcely fail to see in this deed the hand of Divine (Greek Orthodox) Providence. So great indeed is his faith that, upon ascending the throne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: ''Alexander the Absolute | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...coal profits-President Baker emphasized when he opened last week's conference-is to teach consumers how to use coal in new ways and to teach coal men how to "unlock the riches that lie hidden" in coal (i.e., to produce synthetic goods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Coal & Fourth Kingdom | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

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