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Word: fines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...system, and it wouldn't surprise me to find that it can rise twice to the heights. If it has only one really great game, I hope that it will come against Yale, but you can rest assured that the line and the backs will do a fine job against Michigan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CARENS LOOKS FOR WIN AGAINST BLUE | 11/12/1929 | See Source »

...driving a car under a license of a "foreign" state, grave penalties are to be meted out to a penitent company. The phrase, "one hundred dollar fine" drops lightly form the lips of officers, and falls like a death-knell upon the ears of those unfortunates who now loudly boast their independence of Massachusetts and things Bostonian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FROM FAR AFIELD | 11/12/1929 | See Source »

While Brazilian Consul-General Sebastaio Sampaio did his best to soothe with fine words New York's unruly coffee market, President Washington Luis Pereira de Souza of Brazil struggled in Rio de Janeiro with a coffee crisis twice as acute, infinitely more ominous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Atlas Luis | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...three Institute men is a university graduate," the Institute modestly insists: "You will never find us claiming that every man who enrolls in the Institute becomes a president. (But of the men who have enrolled, 45,000 are presidents.) . . . We don't take credit for the fine records made by our graduates any more than Yale or Princeton or Harvard take credit for theirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mail Order President | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Philadelphia. Magazines packed in bundles of five averaged 25? the bundle. All this seemed very commonsensical from the Post Office point of view. To the indigent reading public it doubtless seemed a fine and thoughtful Federal service. But the publishers of national magazines were sore vexed when lately, they found out what was going on. Any thriving magazine has a constant demand for back numbers. Thrifty, self-respecting publishers are at pains to recover all unsold or undelivered copies. The National Publishers Association registered a sharp protest with Postmaster-General Brown, who referred the matter to slender Arch Coleman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Federal Auctions | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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