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Word: doned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I think I see what you are trying to do- make a picture of the big news of the week like the London Illustrated News does. I think you've done not badly, in fact very well on the two occasions of the Supreme Court and the ZRS-4 Ring-Laying. But why not rely, as does the Illustrated News, on the camera? The day of the spot news sketcher has passed I'm sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...defense: Senators hire their "cousins, sons and daughters" as clerks and nobody complains; he made no profit by the employment of Lobbyist Eyanson; a Senator alone can judge his ethics. His only error, as he saw it, was his failure to notify his colleagues of what he had done. Insisted Senator Bingham: "Nothing dishonorable or disreputable was attempted. . . . My motives were based on my wholehearted zeal for a protective tariff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Light on Lobbying | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...Baited to reveal what the Government had done, if anything, about unemployment was Minister of Unemployment J. H. ("Jim") Thomas, onetime engine cleaner, easy-going demagog. As he approached the House of Parliament Mr. Thomas was escorted by a man who had loaded himself with rusty iron chains and bore a placard: "I am unemployed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Parliament Opens | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Books, stationery, and periodicals are sold by 11 stores, a number indicative of the amount of reading and writing done by Harvard men. There are three florists, six druggists, four jewelry stores, and three sporting goods concerns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's Easier to Find a Dentist in Harvard Square Than to Locate a Restaurant--Lawyers Outnumber the Laundries | 11/8/1929 | See Source »

...sense. It means closer association between teachers and students, a more efficient organization and working of the tutorial system, a better provision of libraries and reading facilities. It will immensely improve and humanize the material surroundings of the undergraduates, in the same way as the Freshman Dormitory system has done for the entering class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TAUSSIG LOOKS INTO FUTURE OF HARVARD LIVING | 11/5/1929 | See Source »

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