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Word: devotedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whether it will do so or not, no one can say. The success of the new organization depends largely on the past and future prowess of C. Francis Jenkins, who invented "the first practical motion picture projector," and whose laboratories have recently been devoted to televisionary experiments. The announcement of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Televisionary Biddle | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

On Lily Christine's pink and black jacket is a subtitle mentioning good woman; on her title page in pink fast deflowering to purple she nevertheless promises "a romance." This for Michael Arlen of the onetime vogue is an amalgam so incongruous that one can but suspect him of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Again, Arlen | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

Coach Stubbs stated yesterday that, after today's practice, the University hockey squad will be cut from 70 players to 25 or 30. The University second squad will then be formed. This afternoon's practice, the final workout before the game with M.I.T., will be devoted chiefly to the development...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CURTAIN RISES ON HOCKEY TOMORROW | 12/11/1928 | See Source »

The Student Council devoted the rest of its attention yesterday to various questions which are left over from the football season. The Council voted in the first place to recommend that numerals be awarded to members of the Senior class football team in recognition of their playing both during the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIELD TO ATTEND N.S.F.A. CONFERENCE | 12/11/1928 | See Source »

Acreage of crops harvested was record-breaking. The year's increase exceeded any year since 1918, when farmers planted for war. The Mississippi flood of 1927 caused this sharp difference. The report remarked: "Expansion of acreage is not always desirable, and the expansion this year in the case of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Jardine Report | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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