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Word: twisters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Good recent Wallaces are The Clever One, an engrossing tale of counterfeit money, and The Twister, ingenious yarn of English race tracks and Dutch diamond swindles. Old favorites are: A King by Night, The Green Archer, The Door with Seven Locks, The Girl From Scotland Yard, two of which Queen Mary bought at a London three-penny-six-penny shop for the king (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Master of Mass | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...Subscriber Justice Brown, tongue-twister but no yawn-provoker. ungaping thanks for a scholarly reprimand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secret | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...marked by the power with the willow displayed by the team. After the 22 blows lined out in the 21 to 8 triumph over B. U., the Crimson smashed 13 hits against Virginia and 15 against Georgetown. In the lone defeat, administered by the Quantico Marines, "Captain" Kidd, twister for the Devil Dogs, held Harvard to four singles in 11 innings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON NINE SHOWS POWER IN FIRST GAMES | 4/17/1928 | See Source »

...oppression heralded the coming of the tornado. There was a dull drumming sound as of innumerable wings being flapped high in the air, and the swirl of black dust about the sky. Then a spiral of loosely woven clouds headed downward, an inky blackness in its wake, and the twister began its devastation...

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

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