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Word: fewness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Court Auctioneer is likewise in a position where graft can be a sore temptation. By forced sale he turns possessions into cash. He may conspire with a few choice buyers to undersell assets to them at a bountiful profit which they graciously and secretly split with him. He may...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Busts | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

Actor I. V. Kochalov's real name is Shverubovitch. He has been with the Moscow Art Theatre since 1900, and toured the U. S. a few years ago in The Lower Depths, Three Sisters, The Brothers Karamazov and An Enemy of the People. Russians think his greatest part is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 25, 1929 | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

Enigmatic Morgan. The foremost financier on this round Earth favored the Second Dawes Committee, last week, with an address lasting only a few seconds. At an early session of the Committee, when the other delegates each made succinct 10 minute speeches outlining the policies of their governments, Mr. Morgan rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Iron Man & Velvet Glove | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

Fact. A few days previously King Al fonso signed a royal decree empowering the government: 1) To impose a fine of from 25 to 2,500 pesetas ($3.80 to $380), and imprisonment from one to 14 days on anyone arrested by the police and pro nounced guilty by the Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Rumor v. Fact | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

Elphege Daignault is an attorney-at-law with offices in the Longley Building, Woonsocket. Like most of the 290,540 Catholics who live in and near Providence he is a French-Canadian. And, like most of Providence's French-Canadians, he gave money in 1925 for a school fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Penitent Daignault | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

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