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Word: coverse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under The Presidency, TIME, Feb. 25, you mention the proposal to convert Mount Weather, Va., into a weekend retreat for future presidents. You state that this property is 55 miles from Washington "over fair dirt roads." This is news to your readers who live on the main road between these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Not that this is in itself reprehensible. It has been remarked that sex "is something most of us possess, but in which most of us do not see the guiding star of our lives." In short, while it is not difficult to understand why so much perfectly good paper is...

Author: By H. F. S., | Title: More Novels of the Season | 3/15/1929 | See Source »

Had they lived long enough Edgar Saltus could have typed Imperial Purple on a purple machine and Nathaniel Hawthorne could have related the woes of Hester Prynne with a scarlet fountain pen. To pens, typewriters and kitchen sinks as well as to roadsters, vanity boxes and magazine covers, has come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Brighter Bibles | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

The University Museum of Comparative Zoology today opens a large Fossil Exhibition of extensive scope in the north wing of the University Museum. The exhibition covers the entire ground floor of that section of the Museum and includes four rooms, in which are located many new fossils.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOSSIL EXHIBITION WILL OPEN TODAY | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

The testing process consists of tying a handkerchief before the eyes of the participant, and then giving him three or four brands of popular cigarettes to smoke in succession, among which is an Old Gold. The object of the test is to see if the contestant can pick this one...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CIGARETTE BLINDFOLD TESTS REACH CLOISTERED PRECINCTS | 1/11/1929 | See Source »

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