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Word: fewness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Atlantans, proud of the Woodruff record, point out that at 33 he was the youngest president of a large U. S. corporation, at 40 holds a position entirely unique. Watching his method of handling men, which consists of issuing few orders, making subordinates think, they call him "more thoroughly representative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Atlanta's Woodruff | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

Greatest of the Cuban sugar companies is Cuba Cane Sugar Corp., formed early in the War, now controlling 829,500 acres. Yet despite its dominance, Cuba Cane suffered with all the other Cuban producers when their tremendous output was joined by new peacetime crops from Europe. For many a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Cuba Cane | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

Died. Jeanne Eagels, 35, legitimactress, cinemactress, onetime (1925-28) wife of Edward Harris ("Ted'') Coy, famed Yale footballer (1909); in Manhattan; not of alcoholic psychosis as reported by Manhattan's assistant medical examiner, but of an overdose of chloral hydrate. At a private sanitarium, to which she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 14, 1929 | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

There are so few hospitals where a woman physician or surgeon can get an important post on the staff that the professional members of the New York Infirmary for Women & Children raised a vigorous clamor last spring when their institution seemed about to be dissolved. Last week they were cheering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hospitals for Women Doctors | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

Magazine editors who edit for millions know the value of a theme, which, how ever falsely, shows that the many are more fortunate than the few. But so stale and discredited is the theme that alert editors nowadays freshen up the piece by having it told and signed by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Liberty Liberties? | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

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