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Word: backed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next, to the White House, to spend the night, came Charles Evans Hughes, just back from a bask in Bermuda. From his rangeful knowledge of courts, prosecutions, procedure, he drew much solemn counsel, many a suggestion to help President Hoover on the mechanics of his inquiry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Men of Law | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Such a surplus would handily meet a $45,000,000 bill which the U. S. Supreme Court last week declared the Government owed the railroads in back pay for carrying the mails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Deficit Averted | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...Cecilia Black. 35, mother of three, was Chicago's first female captive under the Five & Ten. Deserted by her husband, she was trying to eke out a livelihood transporting five-gallon cans of alcohol in the back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: The Five & Ten | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...core of the volume is a Student Survey conducted by the Yale Student Council in 1926. It is the findings of this survey which supply the data for Mr. Crawford's treatment of the subject. The questionnaire employed by the Student Survey is printed in the back of the book, and seems to have emitted nothing which might help an intimate understanding of each individual...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: BOOKENDS | 3/23/1929 | See Source »

HARVARD P. M. C. Glynn, No. 1 No. 1, Nicholls Gerry, No. 2 No. 2, Bower Clark, back back, Jones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON RIDERS TO MEET P.M.C. TONIGHT | 3/23/1929 | See Source »

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