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Word: adds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...further add, that there have been no changes whatsoever in the personnel of the "Froth" staff, as a result of action aroused by the mentioned issue. Favorable comments, except in the case of a few, were dominant, and the issue as a whole was considered a great success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 12, 1928 | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

There are 880,000 words in the Bible; 940,000 in the complete works of William Shakespeare. Add these together and season with the Arabian Nights of Scheherazade; the mixture will fail to fill a pot as big as that which would contain the Revelations of a Wife, 3,000,000-word novel, longest in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 3,000,000 Words | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

...settling a dispute without an open quarrel. In that capacity he has been of inestimable service to successive Administrations. For he has what William Allen White calls "a blessed gift as a hand-shaker" and "the indefinable thing called charm which binds men to one another forever." "Add to that," writes White, "a gentle, ingratiating voice, and an easy flow of innocuous conversation unimpeded by pestiferous ideas, and you have a creature God-sent into politics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Presidential Possibilities | 3/9/1928 | See Source »

...ships. He boasts to have sent 25 allied ships to the bottom without killing or injuring a man, a fact to which the many medals he has been awarded bear testimony. His adventures before the war when he ran away from home and worked his way around the world add to his numerous experiences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 250 UNION MEMBERS TO HEAR "SEA DEVIL" SPEAK | 3/6/1928 | See Source »

...real reason" behind Laborite MacDonald's righteous wrath. They found it in an editorial in the Laborite Daily Herald which observed: "The "greater portion of the readers of the evening papers are members of the working class, and if the Rothermere scheme is successful, the new papers will add to the copious stream of misrepresentation of the Labor movement which issues daily from the capitalist newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mind-moulding, Throat-cutting | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

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