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Word: overs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ In the East room a sober public Christmas tree, adorned with a scene of the Nativity, was set up while a family tree upstairs was decked with tinsel, colored lights. Mrs. Hoover had bookstores searched for travel and mystery books, the President's favorites. From all over U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Appointments | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Delicately cracking a bottle of grape juice over its Gloucester fisherman's bow. Mrs. Charles Francis Adams, wife of the Secretary of the Navy, solemnly pronounced these words at Portsmouth, N. H., last week as the Navy's largest submarine slid down the stocks and out upon the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Submarines & Innuendoes | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Only one occurrence threatened to mar the disciplined success of the rescue work which followed. A bevy of panicky Chinamen from the galleys of the Fort Victoria started to run amok with kitchen knives. An armed officer quelled them; the well-regulated filling of lifeboats with women and children, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: All Hands Saved | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Total crop value: $8,580,528,000, an increase of $84,740,000 over 1928. From 367,082,000 acres harvested, crop yields were 5% below last year's, due to widespread drought.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 1929 Crops | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

James A. ("Bud") Stillman Jr., who married Backwoods Girl Lena Wilson at his mother's famed camp at Grande Anse, Que. (TIME, Aug. 8, 1927), is studying medicine at Harvard Medical School. Last week his wife told the press this story: ''Bud rescued a poor crippled boy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

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