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Word: bi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...belief that provision for a bi-partisan tariff commission promotes rather than eliminates politics. I would ask Congress to give me authority to appoint a tariff commission of five members from among the best qualified in the country to deal with the problem irrespective of party affiliations, with a salary sufficiently large to induce them to devote themselves exclusively to this important work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: On the Border | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...that Mrs. Coolidge had not enjoyed the White House. "They all do," says a perennial White House servant who has seen four First Ladies come and go. But the sheer physical tax is tremendous-long formal receptions; bi-weekly informal receptions (instituted by Mrs. Coolidge); luncheons with the Ladies of the Senate (a carry-over from Second Lady days); posing for photographs; laying cornerstones, visiting hospitals, remembering to send flowers, answering mail. Mrs. Coolidge's mother was sick all last winter, too (and is still abed). The journeys from Washington to Northampton, Mass., were wearing. When she reached Brule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Family | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

Undergraduate opinion on whether or not a newspaper should be restricted in the publication of news will be determined this evening, when the Harvard Debating Union holds the fourth of its series of regular bi-weekly meetings in the Living Room of the Union at 7.30 o'clock. The question is: "Resolved. That this house believes that newspapers should be restrained by legislative enactment from publishing murder trials and sex cases...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEX AND MURDER UNDER FIRE AT UNION DEBATE | 1/10/1928 | See Source »

...crayon," calls Jean gaily over the telephone, and Arthur who has been courting assiduously for months is plain stymied. "They give me the cold shoulder," is too often the story of the shipping clerk who is out of it because he lacks the ambition to become at least bi-lingual in the mad search for knowledge. The primitive day of the quoter of Shelley has passed, and John may be forgiven for not saying a word all evening only if he has said it in several tongues, and given it a psychological inference. All this is, of course, a plain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: S'IL VOUS PLAIT | 12/6/1927 | See Source »

...other two debates will be undergraduates of the University. As was the case in the two preceding debates this year, a competition for chairman and secretary of the Debating Union is now under way, and these officers will be appointed before midyears. They will manage the bi-weekly debates of the spring term, obtaining speakers and fixing dates for the meetings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATING UNION WILL HEAR SING SING HEAD | 11/23/1927 | See Source »

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