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Word: fewness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The young people's wing of the Protestant churches is the interdenominational International Society of Christian Endeavor; membership, circa four millions. Especially active in it are Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Disciples. Approximately half of the young Baptists belong to it, the other half are members of the Baptist Young People'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Poling's Endeavorers | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

A few evenings later she seems to relent. She has Jencic take her to the Arcade. But this is only to excite jealousy in Louie, her latest. Dark and dapper, Louie steps up to Jencic, who just stands there like a block of wood, patient and talkative. Louie punches him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Peasant-Citizen | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Oswald Garrison Villard of Manhattan, editor of The Nation, was bequeathed the residuary estate (more than $100,000) of Mrs. Harriet C. Flagg of Brookline, Mass., when she died a few years ago. He maintained that the bequest was a trust, to be contributed by him to humanitarian causes advocated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 15, 1929 | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

There had been sun and heat the first few days in Denver University's High Crescent Stadium which stands nearly a mile above sea level. But on the day of the race a chilly breeze blew down from Pike's Peak. It was evident that Simpson's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Century of the Century | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Those few flyers who have been able to get seven miles above the earth have been at the top of the earth's atmosphere layer. They have been able to stay there only a few moments, for the temperature is 75 degrees below Fahrenheit zero and the air-pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Stratospheric Flying | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

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