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Word: characterize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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A two-day session of noted educators who are meeting to discuss modern procedure in character education, opened yesterday afternoon in the Phillips Brooks House.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Educators Meeting in P. B. H. | 5/2/1929 | See Source »

Gastonia was named for William Gaston (1788-1844)-Princeton graduate (1796), member of the 13th and 14th Congresses from North Carolina, Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court (1833-1844), friend of Webster and Clay-and not for his later kinsman, onetime (1875-76) Governor William Gaston of Massachusetts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Damn Union | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

Through Different Eyes (Fox). When the jury decides that Edmund Lowe was the fellow who killed Warner Baxter, a young girl jumps up in the courtroom and tells what really happened. In spite of this framework, the courtroom atmosphere is pretty real and the story depends enough on character to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 29, 1929 | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

For all its formal show of sovereign independence, Cuba remains a U. S. appendix, attached not only by trade and finance but semi-politically by the Platt Amendment. Said this provision (tacked on to the 1901 Army Appropriation Bill and never since retracted): "The government of Cuba consents that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Appendix | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, who represented a resolution for a sweeping investigation by a special committee of the United States Senate. Senator Walsh revealed that his attention was drawn to the subject by the writings of Professor William Z. Ripley, of Harvard University, in his book, "Main Street and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUSINESS SCHOOL RECEIVES $90,000 FROM UTILITIES | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

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