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Word: corks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Never Cork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 3, 1928 | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...subjected to prohibitions and restrictions by the various nations. It was agreed that Chile, for example, might continue temporarily to exercise governmental control over her imports of scrap iron and scrap zinc, and over the importation of hares. Portugal retained temporary control of her fine wool and raw cork exports. Bulgaria chose to guard her exports of rose trees, roots, shoots; Sweden, her scrap iron; Czechoslovakia, her hop shoots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: International | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...seed is planted on a thin slice of cork floating in the solution; the floats are kept damp until tiny rootlets come crawling down into the water, when the plant can take care of itself. Six foot sweet peas, tall dahlias fed on food pills have bloomed profusely in winter at room temperatures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Plant Pills | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...useful manual, "Gentlemen, Be Seated!" is moreover good reading, not only for its "business," but for its record of minstrelsy since 14th century troubadours. Though the emphasis is of course upon the scions of the American burnt-cork circle, they have not been accorded the full responsibility they have undoubtedly had for weaning an 18th century public away from stage bombast to the extremely humanist drama of today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Original Specialty | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

Died. Donn Byrne (Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne), 39, mystic Irish author (Messer Marco Polo, Blind Raftery, Hangman's House, etc.), self-styled "last of the traditional Irish story tellers"; in an automobile accident, at Bandon, County Cork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 2, 1928 | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

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