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"For an hour before the storm struck with lightning-like swiftness, a desultory thundershower had played about the western horizon. There were jagged flashes of lightning, almost incessant the continuous low rumble of thunder, interspersed with an ominous crackling and a gathering darkness.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: St. Louis Tornado | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

¶ The trip from the Canyon to Cody, on the return to Black Hills, the President made in an automobile, proceeding along the famed Cody road. The picayune limousine in which he sat crawled up edges of huge and jagged mountains, reached finally the height of 9,000 feet above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Coolidge Week | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

The jagged alligator, and the might

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 3/8/1927 | See Source »

Jagged Edges. Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France, anxious to conciliate, was hampered by the report made at Paris last week by Marshal Foch that Germany has not entirely fulfilled her disarmament obligations under the Versailles Treaty. (Specifically German forts on the Polish frontier have been strengthened instead of dismantled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: More Prestige | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

So difficult did it become to smooth such jagged edges at Geneva that Ministers Chamberlain, Briand and Stresemann adjourned the League Council, gathered at their hotel, and kept telephoning to Paris and Berlin most of the night.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: More Prestige | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

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