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Word: furthered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Hoover, working out his sub-Cabinet appointments last week, began on the four air officers-Assistant Secretary of War (F. Trubee Davison), Second. Assistant Postmaster General (Warren I. Glover), Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics (William P. MacCracken Jr.). The President decided to retain Messrs. Davison and Glover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Air Offices | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

By eye, tooth and stoop of shoulder was Actor George Arliss, now 60, foreordained to be a successful Shylock. The bond between William Shakespeare and a host of U. S. schoolteachers was further assurance that Mr. Arliss, after his tours in The Green Goddess and Old English, could take out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Youngest Portia | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

The fifty-fourth session of the Council of the League of Nations opened in Geneva, last week, with sardonic Vittorio Scialoja in the chair. This brilliant, skeptical Italian jurist comes of a line of Scialojas who have been magistrates and grand dignitaries since the 17th Century. He collaborated with Woodrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Billions in the Balance | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

The Story. Joan was a landlubber- for the first eleven months of her life. After that she went aboard her father's four-masted windjammer, a copra-trading schooner in the South Seas, and stayed there until she could stand her trick at the wheel, pull on the ropes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skipper's Daughter | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

But lean years in fashions are no lean years for Lane Bryant, Inc., No. 1 W. 39th Street, Manhattan, outfitters of the ample. For it is the specialty of the Lane Bryant stores so to drape the stout figure that its outlines may be reduced, restricted, curbed. Many an "outsize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Large Bryant Figures | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

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