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Word: finality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...open his lips. Scowling, the "Lion of Lorraine" consented to the vote, won by 335 to 147, and then launched into a great and moving political declaration. His two paramount objects would be, he said, first to put through revision of the Dawes Plan, and thereafter to secure final ratification by Parliament of the Mellon-Berenger debt funding agreement, between France and the U. S. When M. Poincaré had spoken, a cheering Chamber gave his Cabinet a formal vote of confidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Unknown Government | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...final quintessence of absolutism was achieved by the Fascist Regime, last week, when Signor Benito Mussolini drove through the Senate by a vote of 181 to 19 the new Constitutional amendment (TIME, Nov. 21) which makes the Fascist Grand Council an integral unit of the State, with power virtually to decide who may and who may not run for election to Parliament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Absolutely Absolute | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...season the leaders in each group play each other, the two second-place teams play each other, the two third-place teams play each other. Then the third-place winner plays the second-place winner. The winner of this series plays the first-place winner; the winner of this final series is, for what reason it is difficult to tell, the World's Champion and the possessor of the Stanley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hockey | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

Indescribable was the confusion. When William Crawford rang the final gong at 3 o'clock, few traders heard it. Exhausted brokers knew it had been a record day, climaxing a record week. They knew they would work all night and all Sunday to catch up. Somehow, the Exchange had managed to turn over 6,641,250 shares of stock in Manhattan's wildest day of speculation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Wildest Day | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

Appropriate is her supposed method of procedure: she mulls phrases for days on end, setting them first to paper in neat and final typewritten form? but not until her hair is freshly coiffed, her face "arranged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Perfume | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

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