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Word: fountained (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lewis Carroll to the Bible and Shakespeare. Since his speech, more- over, the Democrats and Progressives are no longer in the dark as to his strength. Previously unknown, it is now being estimated from the force of his long boarded, but now freely given entrance. His reserve was the fountain-head of his strength, confirming his supporters in the conviction that he saw all that was going on, and could, if he would, confound his opponents by telling them a thing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STRONG, SILENT MAN | 10/15/1924 | See Source »

...brilliance of glass, the lustre of amber from the Isles. Poetically, it is a resin formed from equal parts of phenol and formaldehyde, in the presence of a 'base, fountain pens, billiard balls, telephone fixtures, cas- tanets, radiator caps, etc. In liquid form, it is a varnish. Jellied, it is a glue. Those familiar with its possibilities claim that in a few years it will be embodied in every mechanical facility of modern civilization. From the time that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Ithaca | 9/22/1924 | See Source »

...Waterman, fountain pen President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mexico Needs Us | 9/8/1924 | See Source »

...glorious year 1779, appeared the Olney Hymns, containing dozens of hymns which English-singing people were destined to sing ever after. Some of them: Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken, How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds, Jesus, Where 'er Thy People Meet, There is a Fountain Filled with Blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 18th Century | 9/1/1924 | See Source »

...happened that a crowd of Persians were giving vent to their spleen in holding meetings of hostility to the Bahaists, religious sect. Allegedly before a sacred fountain in Teheran, capital of Persia, one of these meetings was taking place. Along came U. S. Vice Consul Major Robert W. Imbrie and another American by the name of Melin Seymour, in a carriage. Before the fountain they stopped and took some pictures. Immediately the crowd rushed upon the Americans, crying out that they were Bahaists. They dragged them from the carriage, cut them, beat them. In vain did native servants of missionaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSIA: An Accident | 7/28/1924 | See Source »

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