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Word: bankes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Evening World's first treasure hunt edition sizzled off the presses, it was met in the street by an eager throng of typists, bank-runners, cigar clerks and jobless wanderers, whose curiosity and appetite for adventure were whetted still keener by a very actual lust for booty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspaperman | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

...spend the afternoons at the club, since the children can be brought up on the by-products of Margot's tongue, or the vitality or Edna's system, not to mention the gate receipts of a good case of moral turpitude, Fortune has left the office and the bank, and retired shyly to the boudoir...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LITERARY TURPITUDE | 3/16/1926 | See Source »

...Harkened with amusement to a bill presented by Mr. Maxton (Laborite M. P.) providing for the nationalization of the Bank of England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth: The Week in Parliament Mar. 8, 1926 | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

...Englishmen of the calibre of II Benito: 1) The Rt. Hon. Sir Eric Campbell Geddes (TIME, March 1, BUSINESS), Chairman of the Dunlop Tire and Rubber Company and Allied Companies, First Lord of the British Admiralty (1917-18); 2) The Rt. Hon. Reginald M'Kenna, Chairman of the Midland Bank, First Lord of the Admiralty (1908-11); 3) Sir Samuel Hardman Lever, Financial Secretary to the Treasury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth: The Week in Parliament Mar. 8, 1926 | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

...which is being done under state supervision, has consisted in making borings to ascertain the nature of the ground in which the foundations must be laid. With four different gangs working, eleven borings have been made in all, nine through the ice on the river and one on each bank. The figures taken at boring number four, one of those where the drill was set up on the ice, indicate a considerable layer of clay under the river bottom which the superintendent of the works declared would be favorable to further construction. Plans for the bridge have been drawn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GROUND BROKEN FOR FOOT BRIDGE TO SPAN CHARLES | 3/4/1926 | See Source »

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