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Word: recoverable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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She was taken to a hospital to recover from her wounds, while the 6,000 people jabbered with alarm and the tigers were led out of the arena to their cages, looking less decrepit now, and licking their muzzles with junglar ferocity. The history of the lady was made public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 11, 1928 | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

Briskly, young Black Mustache stepped from his car, peeled off coat, rolled up sleeves, fiddled with the carburetor of the stalled car, and within ten minutes had its motor briskly humming. Only then did the torpid professors recover sufficient alertness to note upon the motor car of their Samaritan the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Rampant Lion | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

Observers remembered that Japan is friendly to Peking and seized upon the essential fact that the Japanese cannonade made it impossible for the Nankingese to follow up their victory over the Pekingese. These latter were thus able to recover from their headlong flight last week and took up strong positions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Ferocious, Aerocious War | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

R. C. Sullivan '28, regular short stop on the University team, is giving a strained arm as long a rest as possible. If the necessity arose, Sullivan could be used in the Crimson infield but Coach F. G. Mitchell prefers to let his veteran recover entirely to prevent a recurrence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY TEAM MEETS MAINE NINE | 4/26/1928 | See Source »

THE ISLAND WITHIN- Ludwig Lewisohn-Harpers ($2.50). The author, a Jew, was evidently in a sweat of fervor when he wrote this novel. He cries out in his preface: "Then, in God's name, let us tell wiser, broader, deeper stories- stories with morals more significant and rich. . . . Let...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Epic? | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

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