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Word: factly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good many of the members of Congress feel just about as I do but lack the moral courage to stand up and vote as they believe." Three weeks later Senator Gould reported to the company his progress as a winemaker: "It [two kegsful] was working quite lively. In fact the pressure was so great that the head of the kegs was bulged. I worked the gas off gradually and finally got the bung out and was surprised to find so much gone. But what there is, is in fine shape and I have it horsed up with a gooseneck tube...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Man from Maine | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...second tract, called The Eighteenth Amendment: A message to young people, began: "Our country needs young people who understand the Eighteenth Amendment and its workings . . . young people whose opinions are so well grounded in fact that they will not be easily misled by false or one-sided arguments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Venture Into Pedagogy | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...rapid in fact were the moves of U. S. Ambassadors Dawes and Gibson and Prime Minister MacDonald, that tactful hints were sent out from both Washington and the British Foreign Office to slow things down a trifle lest another five-power naval conference be called before adequate preliminary work is accomplished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: No Grass Growing | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

...opinion if we made clear, as we might have done long ago, that we have abandoned our naval bases in the Caribbean. In policy we have long recognized that the United States has a paramount interest there and it is time we demonstrated clearly that our strategy recognizes that fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: No Grass Growing | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

Then with prodigious rumbling of gutterals he added: "The Nationalists say Germany has become a colony of France and England. No, we are not a colony, but it seems to me doubtful if all Europe isn't becoming a colony of those who are luckier than we. The fact is that the colonies known as Europe have now come together mutually to lighten their burdens because they have been given no alleviation from the other side?America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Those Who Are Luckier | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

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