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Word: hillses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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So ended the civil proceedings of the U. S. Navy Department against Oilman Edward L. Doheny to recover values and royalties on oil and gas sold by Mr. Doheny's companies from the Elk Hills, Calif., Naval oil reserves, which were improperly leased to the Doheny interests by onetime (1921...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Oil Money | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

And last week the U. S. started yet another civil suit against Mr. Doheny, to break three leases he holds on strips of oil land adjacent to the Elk Hills reserve.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Oil Money | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

Maps mean very little if anything in relation to getting where one wants to so, because inevitably one finds oneself back where one started, in exactly the same spot only several hours later. The best, course of action, therefore is if one can afford it, a taxi, thus enabling a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IT'S A LONG LANE | 9/24/1927 | See Source »

Such a procedure, the natural outcome of the University's policies, would be utterly futile, if, in increasing her appeal and in extending her boundaries she had lost the original soundness and vigor which characterized her founders. If Harvard had rated the importance of quality below that of quantity and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WITHOUT LIMIT | 9/23/1927 | See Source »

¶Miss Ruth Wells, choir leader of the Hermosa church, paid tribute to Mrs. Coolidge: "We shall lose the best singer in our congregation when Mrs. Coolidge goes. Mrs. Coolidge knows the words of every hymn without looking at the book. She has joined us in singing every Sunday; in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Sep. 19, 1927 | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

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