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Word: america (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reelected. George Middleton, Manhattan playwright (The House of a Thousand Candles, Polly With a Past); to the presidency of The Dramatists' Guild of the Authors' League of America; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 12, 1928 | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...like to sing in-in all America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Egyptian Helen | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...Cavalier has Richard Talmadge, long popular in horse-and-pistol pictures, playing two parts-El Caballero, rescuer of the daughter of an impoverished grandee, and Taki, a good Indian helping the other poor Indians, ground down by Spain in South America. He flings that dagger through the window, is chased by those bloodhounds, jumps over that wall, snatches that bride at the altar onto his horse and, as they approach the leap over the ravine, says, "It may mean-Death. . . ." at which she answers, "Death . . . with you. . . ." Spectators lingered in the hope that at some point in this nonsensical fairbanking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 12, 1928 | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

Professor Michelson's presence at Washington last week was a joy to him. The Optical Society of America was meeting there, in the auditorium of the Bureau of Standards. Several hundred physicists who have been searching out light's properties and effects hailed him as one of their greatest. He had measured light data upon which Albert Einstein was able to base his relativity theory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Light & Sight | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

...Subject: Resolved: That America Should Join the League of Nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Debate | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

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