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Word: fewness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Citizens of Villa Atuel in prosperous wine-growing Mendoza Province awoke one night last week with a great roaring in their ears. Houses fell. The earth swelled and cracked open beneath them. In a few moments the town was completely wiped out, 40 were killed, 100 injured, in the worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Quake | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

Department of Genetics. Charles Benedict Davenport, 63, was an associate professor at the University of Chicago in 1904. He had the idea of a station for experimental evolution, and to him was given the direction of the Carnegie Institution's station at Cold Spring Harbor at its creation a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Genetics | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

One of the most bullish of the bulls is William Crapo Durant, motor and market man with reputed large holdings in Chrysler, General Motors, International Combustion, Montgomery Ward, U. S. Cast Iron Pipe, Warner Bros., and many a speculative favorite. Inasmuch as the first five of the half dozen listed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Big Durant Laugh | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

Such, last week, appeared the salient facts concerning the new "mystery" automobile, now definitely in production and soon to be offered to the motoring public. From an engineering standpoint, the distinctive feature of the Ruxton (named for W. V. C. Ruxton, partner of Spencer Trask Co., bankers, and a director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ruxton | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

Active, vigorous, fast-moving, the Chanin Brothers have made many a contribution to Manhattan's new midtown skyline. Their Chanin Building "56 Stories of Sunlight" has been completed for only a few months. In April, they bought the Majestic Hotel, Central Park West, between 71st and 72nd streets. Here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Topless Towers | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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