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Word: downs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Czechoslovakia's official press service soon fulminated that President Masaryk had never spoken as quoted by Dr. Rajniss, did not deny that the interview had taken place, could not down widespread belief that the President had sent up a trial balloon.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Magnanimous Masaryk | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Coffee sellers were panicky, coffee buyers bearishly swell-chested. Plummetlike the price of coffee plunged-down 200 points for two days. Each point is 1/100?. What the howlers called "Dec-Santos!" (coffee from Santos, Brazil, for December delivery) fell, for example, one day from 19.25? to 17.25?, recovered somewhat, hit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Coffee Crisis | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

While this decision will keep Midcontinent production stabilized, there were many oilmen who disagreed with President Reeser's prediction that it will settle U. S. overproduction. Drilling in California is expected to bring in new supplies, and constitutionality of the State Conservation Law (TIME, Oct. 14) is being questioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Oil | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Her Friend the King. William Faversham is a vestige of that genial era, not long past, when certain actors with favorable features had but to smile manfully, lift their eyebrows and bring down the house. These popular fellows appeared in mellow legends which were just militaristic enough to permit them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Cora Neilson of Wynnewood, Pa., took along a cot. U. S. Senator-Suspect William Scott Vare went out in a crowd for the first time since he fell sick a year ago. Worshipful Master Ralph A. Werthein fell dead beside his radio. William Tennyson of Philadelphia stood in line a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: World Series | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

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