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Word: fined (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much bigger job than I should suppose he would have had the temerity to undertake in the closing months of a strenuous term of the President of the world's greatest nation. I'd like the low down on this. Ray Long in his leading editorial "A Fine Human Document" quotes Mr. Coolidge as saying to him: "Whenever a problem comes before me the first thing I say to myself is, 'Isn't there someone who can do that as well as I can?' and you would be surprised how often I find someone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 22, 1929 | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...hand on the fevered brow of your correspondent from Scranton, Dennis F. Crolly, who was so exercised last week (TIME, April 15) about the matter of legs, Nancy Hanks and the disintegrating influence of the Rue de la Paix as set forth in French Line advertising. Nancy was a fine woman; in that I am in entire agreement with him. If she were alive today, probably the French Line would be proud to offer her a cabin de luxe on the lie de France and I would personally shepherd her from shop to shop in Paris. I believe that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 22, 1929 | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...males to adopt sheer, silk pajamas as their public garb. During previous hot winters-with thermometers more often than not at 98° in the shade - perspiring Argentines merely peeled off their coats, went about in shirtsleeves. This year, however, the policia strictly enforced an ordinance punishing with a fine of one peso (42?) the offense of "appearing in public without a coat." Result: thousands of smart, irrepressible Argentines appeared on the streets, in subways, cafes and at bull fights, wearing pajama pants with coats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Prudes v. Pajamas | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...grouped according to the century in which they were printed, but at the same time an effort has been made to include the works of as many countries as possible. In the Fifteenth Genuine Germany is represented by the Nuremberg Chronicle of 1493, a large folio Latin, illustrated by fine wood cuts the people and scenes of the times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 4/20/1929 | See Source »

Botany 7, Chemistry A. Chemistry 22, Class. Philology 34, Economics 3, Economics 9a, English 1, English 14, English 28, English 29a, English 33, Fine Arts 3a, Fine Arts 5n (at Fogg), French A, French B, French 36, German D, Government 1, Government 22b, Greek 3hf, History 4, History 5a, History 9, History 39, Italian 5, Military Science 2, Naval Science 2, Philosophy 9, Philosophy 19, Physics D, Slavic 4, Social Ethics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAKE-UP EXAMINATIONS | 4/17/1929 | See Source »

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