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Word: againe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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If all the human fingers and toes in the world (somewhat more than 30 billion) were free electrons and were multiplied by a billion and again by a billion, all those electrons would weigh just about one ounce avoirdupois. And yet one of those almost weightless electrons, a negative charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Electronic Engraving | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

"I was careless and walked too much after my first operation," confessed the grizzled statesman the other day like a penitent schoolboy, 'but the second fixed me up. It was a complete success, complete' The doctors have cured everything. I am quite well again. ... I have been invited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Great Men's Weakness | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

As fewer and fewer people read Greek, translations of the Greek classics become more valuable. This latest Englishing of what is generally considered Homer's better half should win the Odyssey many new readers, should remind many old acquaintances to read it again. Professor Emeritus (Harvard) George Herbert Palmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Odyssey | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Do right and fear no man. Don't write and fear no Congressman. So might Sugar Lobbyist Herbert Conrad Lakin of Manhattan have paraphrased the adage when, again last week, he faced the Senate Lobby Committee. President of Cuba Co. with its $165,000,000 invested in sugar plantations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Lobby's Weapons | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

The Matter. Reina was a Hollywood cocotte, "a parasite by nature." She got a good man, but couldn't keep him. Olive, a Baptist from Salt Lake City, had an itch for men of culture. She died in Manhattan, after marrying one of many. Ellen wanted to be an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mutabile Semper | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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