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Word: ams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs : Your new FASHIONS department [TIME, Nov. 14] cheats my intelligence, time and purse. I am a businessman (real estate).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 21, 1927 | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

Popular. Two other folk tales about President Coolidge came out during the week. One tale was that, when asked what he would do after retiring to Vermont, he replied: "Well, for a year or two I am going to whittle." The other tale: A taxi-driver drew up at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Nov. 21, 1927 | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

The Principals. Albert Bacon Fall, his lungs congested, despaired greatly and wished that his criminal trial might begin afresh. But it could not begin afresh until January. Wrapped in a blue velvet bathrobe, Mr. Fall gathered strength to go home to New Mexico for Christmas. He reiterated his protests of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Detectives Detected | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

The Builder. The states of New York and New Jersey named the tunnel after Clifford Milburn Holland. In 1906, when he was 23, he left Harvard with both A. B. and B. S. degrees. At once he went to Manhattan, saying: "I am going into tunnel work and I am...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Holland Tunnel | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

Dr. Carl H. von Noorden of Germany had stated that he had been mistaken in glukhorment, his presumptuous substitute for insulin. Last summer he had announced from his famed metabolic clinic at Frank-furt-am-Main that the drug (which he prepared from pancreases) had benefited diabetics and had not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Honest von Noorden | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

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