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Word: individualsâ (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1928-1928
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Meanwhile, and all summer long, the Van Sweringen brothers ? Oris Paxton, 49, and Mantis James, 47?sat high in their 54-story steel & limestone railroad tower domineering over Cleveland. Their apart- ment there in the air is charming.+ Charming, too, are they as individuals???courteous, manly, straightforward. Babbitt Clevelanders state that they are not jovial, that they are aloof. They play (chiefly at golf) more for physical and mental exercise than for sport. As railroad financiers they are great tacticians, but not yet great strategists. They gained control of the Nickel Plate, the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Hocking Valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Sale of the B. R. & P. | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

There being no such, thing as a typical farmer; the distances and facilities between farms and markets being so various; the judgment of individuals???and the farmer remains a landmark of Individual-ism?running the scale it does, the first question of the man-at-the-lunch-counter is impossible to answer irrefutably. Some farmers drive Packards. Others ride mules. Some have radios. Others wear patched pants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Status Quo | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

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