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Word: followed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brief, carefully-timed statement which reminded U. S. taxpayers that unless world navies are further restricted, the U. S. in the next 15 years will carry out a naval building and replacement program costing $1,170,000,000. "And if it proceeds, other nations will be impelled to follow suit." The program includes the navy's 70-odd auxiliary ship plan, plus capital ship replacements under the Washington arms treaty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Action! | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...fencing etiquette. It was in the observance of such by-laws of his game that M. Danguy made himself known as much as in his ability to give to others something of his own skill. He will be missed by those who knew him, and their good wishes follow him to his retirement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M. DANGUY RESIGNS | 6/8/1929 | See Source »

...degree of conviction by a large number of Americans to whom the word Socialist is synonymous with anarchy, bolshevism, and bomb throwing. The period through which Mr. MacDonald's government holds office will surely be rude awakening for the members of this school who will have enough interest to follow it through to its close...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LABOR GOVERNMENTS | 6/6/1929 | See Source »

Public opinion did not follow the President's line of thought. When the commissioners were announced last fortnight, all alert newspaper editors were quick to weigh them in Wet-and-Dry scales. Great were the stirrings among U. S. Drys, Consolidated, and U. S. Wets, Limited, to assemble debatable material to put before the commission. The President's legalistic examiners were lightly spoken of at Washington dinner tables as "highbrow highball homilecticians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Great Commission | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

Judging from the front pages of various Sunday prints it would seem that at least one engineer has felt and keenly resented the often heard references to greasy hands and awkward monkey wrenches. At least he is determined that the younger generation shall not follow in these same steps and has vigorously exhorted the graduating class at the Tech to change their collars every evening, presumably to rid themselves of the stains of honest toll acquired from too close contact with the machine age during...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUMMERS AND MEN | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

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