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Word: fours (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Four days after the Presidential order was issued the entire military escort of a passenger train proceeding through the State of Michoacan were killed when the armored escort car was dynamited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Priests Must Register | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...these hopes were dashed when it was learned that Bishop Francis J. McConnell of the Methodist Church had been chosen (unanimously) as President of the Council for the next four years, as this action seems to make certain that the matter, instead of going from bad to better is going from bad to worse-if that be possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Presbyterians v. McConnell | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...well-to-do. He will scarcely be tempted to flirt with trouble by writing for the newspapers. His family likes having a first-rate sportsman in the family and he is afforded ample time and allowance to play and practice. He arrived at the Brooklyn tournament fresh from four months of serious tennis training in California. "The only thing," said an oldtime linesman watching the Van Ryn-Tilden match, "that can stop that lad is some blame girl. I hope he's a constitutional bachelor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No. 6 Man | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...found Hebrew Union College. Two years later, with a faculty of two, and 16 students, the college started. The library consisted of a few Bibles. The class rooms were the vestry rooms of B'nai Israel and B'nai Yeshuruh in Cincinnati. Today the college has four large Tudor buildings, has graduated 289 Rabbis. The library now has 70,000 volumes and the largest collection of Spinoziana in the world. The librarian is Adolph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hebrew Council | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

Observers noticed that the Swopian advertisement was published five columns wide in the World's contemporaries, the Times and Herald Tribune, but only four columns wide in the no longer Swopian World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Swope's Smoke | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

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