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Word: elementally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...element, minus Senator Walsh, was not as formidable as the Wet among those present. But trepidation was felt until William Gibbs McAdoo began to be heard from. That he would not be "unharmonious" was apparent as soon as he said: "When I ran into Will Rogers today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: War and Peace | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...points in this transaction the element of fair price and value is vital. German swindlers were proved, last week, to have shipped hops, coal, and seed in short measure to French swindlers who crooked their books to represent these shipments as full measure. From the ultimate sale of such goods the French Government thus realized only a short change value- a value whose spuriousness passed for long unnoticed, due to the immense complexity of reparations accounting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Transfer Frauds | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...light of brilliant and steady glow which throws a beam of light through 48 apertures arranged spirally in 2) a large disc that revolves 18 times a second. The light thus brushes speedily across an object or performer and is reflected back upon the third important element of the device-photo-electric cells. The reflected light modifies the electro-magnetic waves passing through the tubes. With light waves rapidly translated into electro-magnetic waves, there remains no problem of sending the electro-magnetic waves through the air. Radio transmission, which changes sound waves (also a part of the machine) into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Practical Television | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...other causes are a common interest in the athletic fortunes of the three time-honored Eastern universities, and a tendency to think alike not only on athletic subjects but on educational ideals and standards as they are promulgated at these seats of learning, and there is a social element only at Chicago where, by the way, there is a large and flourishing Yale-Harvard-Princeton club, may Harvard men be found who think that perhaps Princeton was too brush in her football tactics. This attitude appears to have been the result of some evangel of hate who came to Chicago...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/14/1928 | See Source »

...Southern breeding as to become the mother of a child without wedlock, strikes her mother, sister and aunts like an unaccustomed cold douche. The demure plot of Southern Charm consists of the anticipation and then the actuality of Laura's arrival. But Author Glenn does not overlook the element of charm that prevents her female Southerners from being monsters. This is perhaps because she was born in Atlanta and has herself strayed Northward, not to meow, but to chuckle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Southern Impudence | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

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