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Word: deposition (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fall who was visiting them. They had talked about the Volstead Act, golf, the weather, the Mellon tax plan. Teapot Dome, not then such a notorious episode, had been only touched on. ¶ Washington bankers testified before the committee that Mr. McLean had not on deposit at that time the $100,000 which he declared he had offered to lend Senator Fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: More Oil | 3/3/1924 | See Source »

...document's wanderings did not end there. Soon after it disappeared mysteriously from a safe deposit vault, and now only two manuscript copies, one by Miss Dana, the other by her sister remain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Long-Lost Diary of '75 to Appear Shortly From University Press; Has Valuable Notes on Bunker Hill and Lexington | 2/27/1924 | See Source »

South America. A rich deposit of dinosaur fossils was discovered along the Rio Chico in the Chubut Territory of Patagonia, by a party from the Field Museum, Chicago, under Professor Elmer S. Riggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fossils, Bones | 1/7/1924 | See Source »

...Baby" McLeod introduced a bill to make it a legal offense for parents to fail to deposit with the Government, within 30 days after the birth of a child, photographs of his or her fingerprints and footprints. This measure would prevent confusion of offspring in hospitals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Baby McLeod | 12/24/1923 | See Source »

After all, individualism, the marked absence of standardization, is the "note" of Harvard. Customs and "values" may change. The undergraduate may come to venerate a Phi Beta Kappa key as much as his father venerates his safe deposit or even his wine-cellar key. Mr. Lamont looks forward to the culminat hour when "a member of the Phi Beta "Kappa Society is more honored among "all men than a member of the victorious football eleven." On that day what a business the Boston department stores will be doing in ascension robes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 12/17/1923 | See Source »

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