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Word: handier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...valleys, cut by many a swift river, densely populated, primarily a manufacturing area needing railroads to carry workers and their products, their necessities, New England is a hydro-electric El Dorado. Its latent wealth of White Gold was discovered comparatively late owing to a} pre-emption of the handier power sites by textile and other factories; b} New England conservatism - small men content to make and sell power in a small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Power and the Press | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...bankers are planning handsome developments, which is to say exploitations, in Peru. But Mr. Moore, with all the money a man could decently desire, is far above being a dollar diplomatist. All he might gain is greater familiarity with financial bigwigs, and that he could compass by far handier means; as a home-loving tabloid publisher, for example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Moore Mystery | 3/12/1928 | See Source »

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