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Word: belongings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discovery, in a coal mine on the windswept mountain slopes near Billings, Mont., of a fossil molar tooth of human appearance, mixed in with fossil clams and lizards known to belong in the Eocene period, 50 to 60 million years ago, caused a great deal of newspaper talk last autumn. But experts were inclined to view the molar as that of euprotogonia, doglike Eocene quadruped with manlike teeth in its bearlike-horselike head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Diggers | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

...would have edited a sheet read religiously by the tightlipped, tightmouthed New England bourgeoisie, by politicians, statesmen, presidents. He would have lifted from his presses each evening the first wet copy of a lankcolumned, pinheadlined journal, which, even in the moment of its moist birth seemed austere enough to belong in the files of a Boston library; where, when he actually became editor, 30-year-old copies reposed as valuable records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: President's Bible | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

...thinker. Cynthia writes back and in addition keeps a 'journal. The reader is denied, or spared, very little that they think or feel, with the result that the World State, though it must be nearer with potent young Philip on its side, remains vague in outline and seems to belong only to the Rylands', Mr. Sempack and Author Wells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Aug. 15, 1927 | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

Arthur E. Holt, professor of sociology at Chicago Theological Seminary, wished to trace down to actual statistics the obvious facts that in proportion to total numbers far fewer workingmen, especially union men, belong to churches than do professional and business men. To do this he prepared a table showing the proportions of different men groups in Chicago's total men population and in Chicago's Church rosters. His table and conclusions he printed last week in The Christian, Disciples of Christ magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Church Members | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

...Federal Reserve Board last week gave permission to the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank to lower its re-discount rate from 4% to 3½%. This means that banks of the Tenth (Kansas City) Federal Reserve District which belong to the system, can borrow money for 3½% and consequently can afford to loan money to individuals and concerns at a relatively cheap rate. The lowered rate will have one effect of helping the farmers of the Tenth District harvest and ship the season's crops advantageously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: 3 | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

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