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Word: invents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invent that horrible thing, A sausage-meat machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Gobel | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

...might of the pen having far surpassed the menace of the sword, it is hardly surprising that an age over-supplied with scribblers should invent a new outlet for ink. What better diversion than further to usurp the functions of the sword...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGIATISM IN INK | 4/30/1926 | See Source »

...some rolling mills. In the last chapters, Paula is employing their millions to make their daughter's Semitic strain fashionable enough for the Junior League. To Sam, profits are unprofitable. Even the recurrent ghost of Evelyn has become meaningless. He endows universities with an absent gesture; lets his secretaries invent his excuses; fiddles with his radio. One program is interrupted by a ship's call, in which his daughter recognizes his initials?S.O.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION,NON-FICTION: Sam Smith | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

...Helped invent the modern cabaret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Benvenuto Redivivus | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

What's in a name? Nothing, until it's famous. What's in a title? Many things, whether you inherit it, buy it, invent it, or only bask in its resplendence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Arbiters | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

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