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Word: centredness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The growing crisis centred around the question of reorganizing the Cabinet in conformity to promises made to the Monarchists by the Government at the time when the Experts' Planlegislation was passed (TIME, June 16).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Crisis Growing | 10/20/1924 | See Source »

Geraldine Farrar has a new way of doing Carmen. She has eliminated most of the scenery and the choruses. The interest is centred entirely on the two principal characters, all superfluities being carefully eliminated. Her version was first used when she began her tour, Sept. 26, at Portsmouth, N. H...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: On Tour | 10/20/1924 | See Source »

James J. Davis, U. S. Secretary of Labor, head of the Order (The Loyal Order of Moose) declared his and his brethren's common interest to be centred in the child life of the U. S. In 1906, when Mr. Davis joined as 247th member, the Moose were in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jack | 8/4/1924 | See Source »

This was an age of letter-writing among the ladies of the period. Most of them wrote about the trivialities of Court life and paid floods of compliments to the King and the "reigning mistress ;" few ventured upon criticisms. Those letters of de Scudéry, de Sévign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW BOOKS: Days of the Roi Soleil | 7/28/1924 | See Source »

Its 2% quota based on the 1890 census (the present quotas are 3% on the 1910 census) have aroused many foreign groups and nations to protest. But last week's fight centred principally on the provision for absolute exclusion of all aliens ineligible for citizenship, meaning especially Japanese. Secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Prolific Wives | 3/24/1924 | See Source »

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