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Word: fewness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The inventor, joke-loving, played with his machine. He flew her toward a fence and, just as he might have crashed, pulled her into a stall. She hovered comfortably a few feet from the ground. He got her high and flew her to about 90 m.p.h. At will he held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Cierva Autogiro | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Brother George, after he left St. Michael's College in Toronto, worked for Swift & Co. in Chicago, then for Quaker Oats. After a few years he set up as a broker (Morrow & Co.) in the New York Produce and Sugar Exchanges. He took a hand in Gold Dust Corp. of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Two Morrows | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Both these systems have obvious advantages and disadvantages. If you are a small country banker who does not want to be swallowed up by a large bank, you will probably see that a chain bank remains a local bank with the interests of its neighborhood at heart; that branch banking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Northwest Wind | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Called smartest U. S. director, King Vidor grew up in Galveston, Tex., went to Tome School in Maryland. When he left school he wrote short stories, published few, then wrote 51 scenarios, sold the 52nd to a small producer in Texas. He directed himself in the leading role, made little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Sep. 2, 1929 | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Cause of academic commotion for or against it is probably that most of the book is based on ethic rather than fact. A few not-so-original remedies are suggested for a few situations. A situation: from a young husband, hampered by modern working conditions such as feminine competition, young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tribes, 1929 | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

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