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Word: adds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the President has stated that contemplated changes in public service would not require a large recruiting of new personnel, he will undoubtedly draft his diplomats from more ornate but less exacting service in European posts, to add prestige to South American embassies. The proposed plan is in accord with the experienced organizing ability of Mr. Hoover, and diplomats will soon learn that the needs of the service outweigh the personal preferences of those who are a part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DIPLOMATIC PRESTIGE | 3/14/1929 | See Source »

...defeated central powers and to strengthen the smaller or newly-created succession states considerations of strategy, of communications and of geography were allowed to play into the settlement of the frontiers, with the result that since the war there have been more submerged minorities and more irredentas than before. Add to this the fact that these minorities have become nationally more and more conscious and there should be no difficulty in understanding the seriousness of the question at the present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racial Minorities in Europe Present One of Most Dangerous Political Questions Today | 3/12/1929 | See Source »

...took the day off yesterday, along with the steam in the radiator, changed his mind on that score. It took every one of the hitherto purely ornamental logs in his fire-place to thaw out his typewriter enough to use, so before it solidifies again he hastens to add that any such comments are hereby postponed to a later and he hopes not too much later, date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Only one thing is lacking to complete the renascence of art appreciation that is taking Cambridge by storm, only one thing to add to the Fogg Museum, The Hound and 'Horn, the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art and the loan library of pictures recently instituted by the Fogg...a library of music records. Some kind benefactor of the University would give great pleasure and the means of further study to Harvard students if he established a fund for the purchase of the symphonic and chamber music pieces which are now being so excellently recorded. A room in Paine Hall might...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wanted | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...Fiench language, Anglo-Saxons have added the word "beefsteak."* Happenings of last week made it possible that the U. S. branch of the Anglo-Saxon family might also add the word "flivver' For Henry Ford was preparing to drive vigorously for the French market and to compete sharply with Citroen, the popular-priced French car which sells at approximately the same price ($1,000) in the French market as the least expensive of the new Fords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: $1,000 Ford | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

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