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Word: commits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high prices in the future in the anthracite fields. The use of bituminous is important not only for the moment but for the future. This the public should understand and appreciate. When this realization reaches the anthracite district, the operators and miners will get together. If not, they will commit industrial suicide?a thing which they have almost done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COAL: Anthracite | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

...Thou shalt not commit adultery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Condensed | 7/27/1925 | See Source »

...Rumanian commoner (denied at Bucharest) attracted considerable attention. His father confined him for 75 days for a breach of military discipline which was popularly supposed to have been his marriage. Subsequently, so rumor went, he was forced to divorce his bride, having previously attempted to renounce the throne and commit suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Active Prince | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

Business continues to look to the stockmarket for clues of business prospects for the remainder of the year. But the stockmarket refuses to commit itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Current Situation: Jun. 15, 1925 | 6/15/1925 | See Source »

...characters seem the metaphorical figures of the essay rather than the working, laughing children of life. His hero is an indecisive creature who turns radical in politics, finds that radicalism has caused his wife to commit suicide, finally follows suit. Rebecca West is the woman he loves, the woman who has sowed in his wife's mind the seeds of her decision to die. Rebecca jumps into the mill-race with the hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: May 18, 1925 | 5/18/1925 | See Source »

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