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Word: fell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME is beyond all doubt the correct name for the only newsmagazine in these United States. I nearly fell off my comfortable and well balanced chair (and the whole phrase is meant literally) when I opened up the Nov. 12 issue of TIME this afternoon and found the complete election results, covered in your usual highly interesting style. That was an example of real speed on your part?speed I had not thought probable. TIME certainly makes full use of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Japanese Ears | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...Onorevole Mussolini, ofttimes quick to wrath and action, acted both hastily and wrathfully last week, dismissed at fell blow his entire Italian Board of Cinema Censorship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cinema | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...vanquish this fear. Cried he, at the apogee of his oration: "Six years of loyalty and devotion to the King and Crown by all men of the Fascist Party and the recent dedication by the King himself at Bologna of a votive lamp in memory of those Blackshirts who fell in the creation and defense of the Fascist regime, make it unnecessary to give further demonstration that the rights of the Crown will not be endangered or touched by the special prerogatives given to the Grand Council, which legally thereby becomes the adviser to the crown and the regime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Absolutely Absolute | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...eight on automobile accidents, eight on real estate claims, six landlord and tenant cases and four will cases. Other miscellaneous cases were a suit against a former tenant who smeared creolin all over the wall of her apartment when forced to leave, and a suit by a woman who fell in a badly lighted stairway, for whom the Legal Aid Bureau...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 11/21/1928 | See Source »

...smoke over San Francisco Father Claus sent a vigorous protest. He started a gas company of his own, deliberately set out to drive the San Francisco Gas Co. to the rocks. But Son Rudolph, on the verge of retirement, was a stockholder in the besieged company. When the stock fell, he gained control, cut out $300,000 waste, whipped Father Claus a second time. Said Father Claus: "No other man has beaten me once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Sugar & Spreckels | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

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