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Word: companionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clarence Duncan Chamberlin was twice displeased last week by leaks. A fuel pump failed on his Bellanca plane and brought him and his companion Roger Q. Williams down to earth. Soon they went up again, circled, idled, wandered back and forth, wasting time, waiting. A tiny hole drained tiny drops from their gas tank. They came back to earth again 51 hours, 52 minutes, 24 seconds later, defeated by this tiny hole. They failed by half an hour and seven seconds to supplant the German world's record (TIME, Aug. 15) for endurance flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Almost | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...past it has usually developed that four men out of five have indicated a desire for tutoring or tutor-companion work. The number of these jobs is necessarily limited and all men are not actually qualified for this type of work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORK FOR SUMMER OUTLINED BY DALY | 1/10/1928 | See Source »

...with the Vagabond all was well. He remembered, a trifle vaguely, perhaps, that he would not roam the halls of learning until the mid year examinations; besides, we have remarked, perhaps we should say confessed, the glass was empty. Then, too, it has been recorded that the Vagabond's companion was fair, was, it may be said, shall, in fact, be said, nothing short of well favored...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 1/3/1928 | See Source »

...Curtis Publishing Co. in volume of circulation in the U. S. The Curtis magazines are: the Saturday Evening Post (2,795,388 copies); The Ladies Home Journal (2,498,310); Country Gentleman (1,459,154). Crowell challenges with Collier's (1,327,875) ; Woman's Home Companion (2,235,488) ; American Magazine (2,162,252). Crowell's three leading magazines lag behind Curtis's by a mere 1,000,000 circulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Plaintive Lion | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

...situation with the bitter resolve that having returned from the hell of war into a world of swine, he will himself fight and grasp and be a greater swine than all of them. It is a strong play, conviucingly acted, and it has the unpleasantness that is often the companion of truth...

Author: By R. N. G., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/10/1927 | See Source »

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