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Word: fewness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Francis Scott McBride, bespectacled, square-jawed, rumple-haired alumnus of Muskingum College, is a person of no small importance. As Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of America he inhabits and marches in the boots of the late, mighty Wayne Bidwell Wheeler.* Last week he marched into New Jersey to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Who's What | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

"Many of the correspondents suspected Mr. Shearer of being exactly what he was. Some felt that his game was to wreck the Conference at any cost. A few, but not many, disliked him, although disliking such a genial person was difficult. But scarcely one of them felt able to refuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Epic Lobby | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

Muddle & Stalemate. Though superficially plausible the Hughes stand won over no Nationalist M. P. except Yachtsman Marks. Only the fact that the Government was balanced on a single vote made possible a debacle which throws before Australian voters an issue mixed and muddled as completely as possible by Parliament. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Bruce Defeated | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

Grandi. First of the seven is theatrically handsome Dino Grandi-he of the luminous eyes, by turns smouldering or aflame-he of the virile, bursting beard. Appointed Foreign Minister last week, Signer Grandi was promoted from Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs. During the past few years he has been the actual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Authority, Order, Justice! | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

A few months ago the original Corpse Blackamon, finding the long evenings in his coffin cramping and monotonous, gave up his original act, purchased a hussar jacket and a whip and toured South America, sticking his head into lions' mouths twice daily. But Argentine circusgoers missed their Living Corpse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Corpse Blackamon | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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