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Word: doings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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"We know that this so-called German Grand Opera Company is again an enterprise of Mr. Blumental's. As soon as we heard about our name 'Bayreuth' being brought into connection with this, we wrote to Mr. Blumental strickly forbidding him to call his company anything like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Valedictory | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

Since the private army of Marshal Feng unquestionably contains the Nationalist Government's "best soldiers," there is no question that the War Minister means to police Shantung with his own men. Doubtless that would be well for the desperate, starving Shantungese. If they are not to perish many a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Wrestling with Shantung | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

South America has no endowed school for the teaching of general aeronautics. With the poor development of land transportation, there is a great opportunity for planes to carry passengers, mail and express over the greater part of the continent. This enterprising air transport companies are beginning to do-largely with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Tale of Two Women | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

There were many peculiar and eccentric birds upon display. One, a featherless, wingless, soundless, egg-laying edible chicken was called the Kiwi. There were Buttercups from Sicily and Austrolops from Australia, and one three-legged hen. Newsmongers in their enormously disagreeable eagerness to make some funny sayings about the poultry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Poultry Show | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

Not merely inquisitive are these world-thought probers. Once they know what the world thinks, they will do something about it: They will "formulate a future program of service to all branches of learning."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Intellectual Mean | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

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