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Word: jacking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francisco's Call reprinted the letter of Jack-the-Snipper "A. Y. Cooke" (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 5, 1929 | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

Died. George Lea Lambert, 23, of St. Louis, "Listerine" scion, vice president of Von Hoffman Aircraft Co., son of Major Albert Bond Lambert (official observer of the St. Louis Robin's endurance flight? see p. 47); near Black Jack, Mo., when his plane crashed, killing also Student Pilot Harold Jones. Last year, flying from his graduation exercises at Princeton University, Airman Lambert crashed with his cousin and classmate, James Theodore Walker near Pottsville, Pa., killing Walker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 5, 1929 | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

Twin Beds (First National). Comedian Jack Mulhall, who used to act only with Dorothy Mackaill, herein plays opposite Patsy Ruth Miller, supported by a good cast. The story is one of those anecdotes generally used as a framework for the less profitable shows of minor burlesque circuits. Miss Miller's frustrated ambition to sleep in a bed beside her husband's on her wedding night might have been funny in spite of everything but for the dialog-line after awkward line recited in singsong and divided from the next by little fences of silence. Twin Beds is partially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 29, 1929 | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...hospital was named in honor of Major Walter Reed (1851-1902), Army Surgeon, who was dispatched to Cuba in June, 1900, to learn the causes of yellow fever ("yellow jack") and whose discovery that the disease was transmitted by Stegomyia calopus (mosquito) paved the way for the slaying of that "yellow dragon" and the construction of the Panama Canal. Major Reed died of appendicitis, is buried at Arlington. To the place named for him are taken men hurt and broken in the nation's service. Wives of Army men travel thousands of miles to bear their children there, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Poor Eggs, No Milk | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

French Amateur Championship-won by Jack Westland of Mamaroneck, N. Y.; at Chantilly, France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Titles | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

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