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Word: doings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ Two years ago Rumrunner James Horace Alderman killed two coast guardsmen in Florida. Last week President HooVer was asked to commute Alderman's death sentence to life imprisonment. This he declined to do.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Aug. 12, 1929 | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

Now 32, he emerged from art school in 1921. Before the year was out, Queen Mary had visited a London gallery to gaze upon the first oil portrait her eldest son had sat for since childhood. King George called Painter Chandor to him to say it was an excellent likeness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painter Chandor | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

How can one do without love?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stormy Mirabeau | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

In 1785 Sculptor Houdon was chosen by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, as "the best [sculptor] in any of the European States," to do a statue of Washington. With Franklin he traveled to the U. S., stayed two weeks at Mount Vernon, took measurements, made plaster casts. He is said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Houdon's Washington | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

How these 125 Negro graduates are to get their hospital experience is a problem which the Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges last week called to the profession's attention by its reports of the Association's last meeting. A doctor must spend one or more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Schools for Negroes | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

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