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Word: brush (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week announced his intention of donating his camp in Virginia to the U. S. as a permanent presidential retreat. He detailed the contributions to its construction: 1) from Virginia, roads to the camp; 2) from the Marine Corps, "Labor in erecting cabins and tents, in providing water supply, cutting brush;" 3 ) from the telephone and electric light companies, "connections without charge;" 4) from local residents, "labor on fine trails;" 5) from the U. S. Army engineers, road work "as one of its summer exercises:" ]6) from himself, 164 acres of land, "the purchase of building materials, etc. . . . some labor costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: No More Pests | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...more famed names in the Drug, Inc. family album. There is Sal Hepatica which clears the system promptly. There are Gastrogen Tablets, which relieve in digestion with none of the embarrassments of gas and rumbling. There is Ipana, the tooth paste you should use if you have Pink Tooth Brush. And, by a recent merger, there is Ingram 's, the cool shaving cream. Bristol-Myers showed a 1928 net income of $1,483,159 or with Ingram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Drug Family | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...they must keep the support of 45 Liberals to retain a majority in the House of Commons. Should the Conservatives be able to daub Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald again with the red brush, his Liberal support would melt away, and his present (second) Cabinet would fall as disastrously as did his first (TIME, Nov. TO, 1924). when Conservatives cried "Red!" and waved the notorious Zinoviev letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Giants Shake | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

Died. Charles Francis Brush, 80, famed scientist, inventor of an arc light and storage battery, lately appointed national chairman of a campaign for a $2,250,000 endowment fund by the American Philosophical Society; in Cleveland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

Southward out of Chicago early one morning last week slipped three automobiles. They crossed the Illinois-Indiana line and parked at Spooner's Nook in the desolate outskirts of Hammond. Something heavy was flung into the brush. One of the cars was driven into a ditch. The other two cars drove away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: In Spooner's Nook | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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