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Word: fairs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and the Empire's choicest assortment of Industrial Tycoons marshaled by their dean, Baron Ebbisham, President of the Federation of British Industries. The guests were met?or thought they were?merely to toss off a few champagne toasts to the British Industries Fair, which would open next day in London. But no sooner had Edward of Wales risen and begun to speak, than the Tycoons realized with an unpleasant shock that they were in for one of the most thoroughgoing rebukes ever administered to rich old men by a young heir apparent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Wise Wales | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...well as the foils were contested, and the Crimson Freshmen went down to a 13 to 4 defeat at the hands of the schoolboys. This setback was mainly the result of the inexperience of the 1932 sabre and epee contestants. The foilsmen succeeded in holding their own to fair advantage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1932 Fencers Meet Andover | 2/27/1929 | See Source »

...Publix girls are, as usual, the best thing about the stage show. Their steps may pass through recognizable cycles as the weeks go by, but they are graceful and fair, and their costumes, like the stage effects, are proof of an architectonic imagination somewhere. But this week they sing. It's a talkie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...mass-psychology as to why, in the face of these records, the constant criticism of the work of the "Y" persists. I suggest to Mr. Scott that he read the editorial note written by Frederick Palmer in the American Legion Monthly for September 1928, under the title "Were We Fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 25, 1929 | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

Mount Weather, as the $500,000 abandoned station is called, sits in an 87-acre tract, six miles up a rocky road from Bluemont, Va. Washington, east by southeast, lies 55 miles away over fair dirt roads- an easy journey for the Presidential motor of a Friday afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Retreat | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

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