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Word: ets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...really rich and potent tycoon likes the idea of sitting on a "sub-committee," and so last week the three sub-committees of the second Dawes Committee-now sitting in Paris to revise the Dawes Plan (TIME, Feb. 18, et seq.)-were rechristened "Informal Groups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tycoons' A B C | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...second time, and finally Pope Pius turned the check over to the Papal treasury, with instructions that it be used to relieve Catholic priests in Mexico, many of whom are homeless and impoverished due to the suppressive measures of Mexican President Emilio Fortes Gil (TIME, March 4 et ante...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAPAL STATE: Peter's Pence | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...Harry J. Hahn of Kansas City had been unable to prove that her heirloom painting was a Leonardo, or that Sir Joseph was guilty of slander when he pronounced it only a graceless copy of Leonardo's La Belle Ferroniére in the Louvre (TIME, Feb. 18 et seq.). Therefore she could not extract $500,000 damages from Sir Joseph. He, on the other hand, had failed to impress the jury with his opinions. Therefore he could not feel the pride appropriate to an international art tycoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Duveen on Da Vinci | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...Stendhal et Merimee", Professor Allard, Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/5/1929 | See Source »

...intellectual curiosity which finds its archetype in the "who-was-the-greatest-poet-Momma" sort of query ripens remarkably under the influence of Lux et Veritas,. The announcement today of the Senior questionnaire bears promise of a bumper crop of Yale superlatives. "Greatest social celebrity", "Most entertaining", "Best looking", and "best dressed" seem to flourish particularly well in the warm climate farther south, and bring home to those in Cambridge the difficulty of cultivating the same sort of thing under the exigencies of local conditions. Nothing but the most artificially regulated amosphere can develop analogous products within a radius...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE THINKS BEST | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

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