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Word: fewness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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One evening last week a voice in the ether declared: "The microphone for these few moments has been brought to the President's study in the east wing of the White House."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Senator Coleman Livingston Blease of South Carolina, next day, passed a few remarks on Washington drinking. Speaking in the Senate, he asserted that there are "four narcotic joints" in operation on Pennsylvania Avenue near the Capitol.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Opium Ships. Generals Couzens of Michigan and Robinson of Arkansas suddenly moved to insert a provision in the tariff bill making the owners as well as the skippers of ships subject to fine for bringing illicit opium to the U. S. As they opened fire, Republicans and Democrats alike turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: First Assault | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

One of the leading radio manufacturers has just issued an appeal through the newspapers urging the public to protest against the plan to prohibit broadcasting of professional boxing matches and baseball games, which is being seriously considered by the magnates of these sports. Apart from the loss of enjoyment to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTS ON THE AIR | 9/28/1929 | See Source »

The inevitability of this process is a bitter pill to swallow for those few members of our own civilization that appreciate the true values lying beneath the chaos that prevails in China today. But with transportation and communication as far developed as they are now this Westernization cannot be long...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YENCHING OPENS | 9/28/1929 | See Source »

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