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Word: attendents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...capital punishment really prevented a crime we should execute our murderers in the public square, on high hills or on top of our skyscrapers. Everybody should be required to attend. The schools and factories and business houses should be let out, just as they are on a holiday. The children should start right by seeing what we do to those who go wrong. 'Movies' should be taken and the front pages should be covered with delicious details of the murderer's last hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Capital Punishment | 2/15/1926 | See Source »

...Because Russia obstinately refuses to attend a conference on Swiss soil (TIME, Feb. l),with the deliberate intention of thwarting the League, which of course maintains its large and immovable permanent equipment at Geneva.* 3) Because France and England do not want Germany to sit in at such a conference until she is within the League and has fully complied with the disarmament clauses of the Treaty of Versailles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Disarmament Postponed | 2/15/1926 | See Source »

Edward of Wales endured with a jaunty good humor last week the elaborate bandage which holds his bruised arm and side in such a way as to prevent strain upon his fractured collar bone (TIME, Feb. 8). Since the bandage would have made it awkward for him to attend the King in full court regalia (see "Parliament Opens") he slipped off to his hunting centre at Melton Mowbray and amused himself among the peasantry on his estates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Farmers, Prince | 2/15/1926 | See Source »

...carrying out his long-rumored plan of merging the great bakeries of the country and controlling their factory brands of the national life-staff from sown seed to delivered loaf. U. S. housewives still bake 50% of the bread, cake and pastry that is eaten. Baker Ward would attend to much of the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Tip-Top Bread | 2/8/1926 | See Source »

...easier to get by with a minimum of work. It is an actual fact that throughout my entire four years I read no more, in the aggregate, than fifty small pages of large type, and that I skipped eighty per cent of the lectures I was supposed to attend. I not only did not fail to get through; I graduated cum laude! Harvard '21, Providence, R. I. --"Notes and Queries," American Mercury...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: When Fool Counsels Fool | 2/6/1926 | See Source »

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