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Word: adds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bills, benefiting nightworkers and fourth-class postmasters; sent the bills to the Senate. (President Coolidge's objections had been, that night-working postal employes received ample raises in 1926; that fourth-class postmasters mostly keep stores or do other private business, to the overhead of which their postal duties add nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The House Week Jun. 4, 1928 | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

Rising to a toast, M. Bokanowski fervently assured them in the name of France that their professional honor stands wholly vindicated, and hastened to add his conviction that they are excelled in no respect by foreign telephonists. Scandinavians and U. S. citizens who used Paris telephones, last week, were not so sure, still think the service in the homelands quickest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Smart Citizens | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

Before the new flood-prevention works can be begun, two more legal moves are necessary: 1) To $10,000,000 which the War Department has on hand, Congress must add $15,000,000, to make up a first instalment of $25,000,000 on the $325,000,000 authorized for the whole program. The $15,000,000 will doubtless be inserted in the Second Deficiency Bill when that measure reaches the Senate this week or next. 2) The new three-man U. S. Flood Control Commission (see below) must study conflicting plans for the work and report to the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Signed & Consigned | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg went so far as to add that the U. S. does not recognize any claim that Japan possesses special interests in Manchuria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Powers on the Alert | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...contrast to the figures for quiz up-keep there may be presented the total restricted and unrestricted expenditures for Sanskrit by the College which add up to $8.28. This sum in turn dwarfs the annual cost of equipment for the Board of Freshman Advisers which is with all required refinements included exactly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annual Financial Outlay for Examination Blue-Books Is $1,262.55--Monitor, Sanskrit Costs Form Contrast | 5/25/1928 | See Source »

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