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Word: greatly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spending $50,000,000 per year on river and harbor development, $35,000,000 on flood control. President Hoover predicted that his program could be undertaken and carried through by the expenditure of only an additional $10,000,000 per year - or $20,000,000 if the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence seaway were included...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Billion-Dollar Beaver | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...Channel improvements in the Great Lakes with stabilization of their levels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Billion-Dollar Beaver | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...Sheriff, the Mayor, the City Commissioners, the Justice of the Peace and the Constables resigned, and for good measure we took the resignation of an involved member of the legislature. . . . With the new officials whom we installed . . . Hutchinson County will be the tamest county in Texas. It was a great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Taming Texas | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...Samuel Johnson (1709-84) became an issue in the trial. Prosecutor Pomerene cited the fact that the great lexicographer had called patriotism the last refuge of a scoundrel. Quick to see his chance Defender Hogan roared to the jury that this Englishman had vilified American revolutionary leaders, had advised a yardarm hanging for George Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: First Felon | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...brief hold-up occurred over hexamethylenetetramine (derivative of formaldehyde and ammonia used in medicine and vulcanized rubber) when Generalissimo Smoot could not pronounce it. Ink rates fell suddenly with a great black splash over the regulars. Epsom salts collapsed feebly under the jabbing attack of the Coalition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Rate Encounters | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

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