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Word: challengee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Half 'round the world, in huge Brazil (a land larger than the continental U. S.) another challenge to British rubberdom was being prepared, last week, by bustling agents of Henry Ford. He, grown tired of paying British rubber prices, has purchased an immense tract of land near Belem, northern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Global Rubber War | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

The Mirror achieved its greatest notoriety under the editorship of Philip A. Payne, who ran bloated Harry K. Thaw out of town (TIME, Sept. 28, 1925), reopened the Hall-Mills case, finally perished in the Old Glory flight. Founded three and a half years ago, the Mirror was Mr. Hearst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: O, how full | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

A man who is still young, tireless, and immensely capable--a man who has been loaded down with religious prejudice, the wet issue, and the fragrant memories of Tammany Hall and yet manages to remain politically available despite these handicaps, each one of which is theoretically sufficient to destroy him...

Author: By Charles Merz, | Title: Presidential Possibilities | 3/16/1928 | See Source »

Do not agree with all your conclusions or policies. Would not want TIME so agreeable. Like the challenge to constructive thinking it offers. Our students quote TIME like a minister his Scripture. More power.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 12, 1928 | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

Its wisdom would be in its sheer temerity; in its novelty for a time that is used to novelty; and in the directness with which it would strike to the heart of such issue as there is between the two parties this year. When Prohibition, Religion, Corruption and Party Feeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Inventory | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

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