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Word: gaine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Will thousands of aliens in Mexico and Canada who commute daily into the U. S. to gain their livelihood, be thrown out of work by an immigration ruling issued last week by the U. S. Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Barred? | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

Lady Do. Here is a musical comedy exploiting that situation, apparently entrancing to many, in which a man dresses like a woman to lure his rival away from the heroine, in order that he-she may gain her for her-himself. Karyl Normand impersonates easily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: May 2, 1927 | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...supply of 600 tickets issued for the meeting has been exhausted, and as a consequence those who do not hold tickets will be unable to gain admission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARROW TALKS TODAY ON "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT" | 4/29/1927 | See Source »

Capital net gain from sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Income Sources | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

William Crapo Durant, creator of General Motors Corp. and lately a profiting speculator in Wall Street, last week spent $21,000 to advertise in 48 newspapers in 29 cities, and thus gain presumably 8,800,000 readers of the new leaf he is turning industrially as well as financially. At 65 years of age he intends to duplicate General Motors -by means of Consolidated Motors Inc., which he has just had incorporated in Delaware. And "exactly as the Buick in 1908 was used as the nucleus and the keystone of the great General Motors," he intends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Football of Wall St. | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

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