Word: evener
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lady fired seven shots from a revolver at her friend. As she is remarkably proficient in everything she undertakes, every shot took effect. The man lives, but in a much perforated condition, in which every vital organ has been missed by a hair's breadth. The doctors even predict his recovery...
Again, Tycoon Sirs: Had hoped you would tire of it-but no. I'll forgive you anything you have done-or anything you may do, if you'll abandon that alien "tycoon" thing. Even TIME cannot pluck it from its comic opera setting in the mind of the English speaking world, and give it adequacy or dignity, by all too frequent use. Is good old United States so poverty stricken that you must lug this in? It grates-ugh! H. VAN ANTWERP Farmers...
...hear were the protests U. S. manganese producers who charged that the Senate Republicans were favoring great Eastern corporations potent in politics. Connecticut's Senator Hiram Bingham was one of the two Republicans whose vote change caused the manganese rate change. His explanation: "The White House wanted it." Even high-tariff Chairman Reed Smoot, incensed at his committee's inconsistency, ironically observed that the market value of U. S. Steel stock had increased "only a hundred million dollars" after the last fortnight's slump precipitated by an increase of the Federal Reserve's rediscount rate...
...still are tending bars, but as soft drink and soda jerkers, so in the interest of accuracy we are changing the name. In New York we still call them bartenders' unions. In Missouri they are beverage dispensers' unions. In such states as Kansas we don't even have any organization any more...
Editor Moffat never aimed at mass-circulation. Even when mass-circularizing Crowell Publishing Co. (American Magazine, Colliers, Woman's Home Companion) bought The Mentor in 1920, it did not commercialize original Mentor ideals, but retained Editor Moffat, continued to please the 50,000, the 70,000, finally the 100,000 who liked The Mentor for what...