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Word: chaires (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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When he went to school, Manhattan's Mayor James John Walker, world-famed playboy, pulled little girls' pigtails, set tacks on teacher's chair. Last week he was 48. In front of his own City Hall, he turned in a false fire alarm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: False Marm | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...noon one day last week President Hoover walked solemnly from the Cabinet Room through the short passage to his own office. Behind him came a small procession of House and Senate leaders. The President seated himself at his broad desk, hitched his chair closer, reached out and drew to him a document labeled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Constructive Start | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...that you were right. The comedy supplied by Neil Hamilton is supposed to open windows so that air can freshen up the suspense, but Hamilton gets boring and the technical detail is much too sloppy for a murder story. Best shot: the murdered man sitting in a chair usually reserved for a stage dummy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...Columbia. Princeton, New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Chicago Musical College, Cincinnati College of Music, Ann Arbor School of Music (University of Michigan). The terms of bequest are similar. The money may be used for one or more of these purposes outlined in the will: to maintain a chair or chairs of music, musical history, or musical esthetics; to maintain scholarships or fellowships in music; to give public performances; to do anything-musical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ditson's $800,000 | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

Chief financial figure in Kolster is Sugarman Rudolph Spreckels, board chair man. Chief radio expert is Engineer Frederick A. Kolster. Born in Geneva, Switzer land, transported to Boston, Mass., at the age of two, Mr. Kolster was originally destined to be a musician. His family came to this country, indeed, because his father had been engaged to play a violin with the Boston Symphony. Young Kolster therefore soon had a violin handed to him. But his small hands did not well adapt themselves to the instrument and when to the violin was added a piano, Engineer Kolster, rebellious, entered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Patent War | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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