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Word: knowes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tell your readers that HOOVER hasn't a CHINAMAN'S chance of carrying anything south of the POTOMAC. You know it has "gotten out" that his campaign Manager is named "WORK" and if you tried to run a farm down here you would soon learn that work is anathema to almost the entire population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 23, 1928 | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

Smith to Farmers. The Indiana Farm Bureau Federation asked to know what Nominee Smith's procedure on the agricultural problem would be if he were elected. That was an easy one: It did not require the Nominee to reply with a full-bodied solution of the farm problem. He replied that if elected he would at once call farm experts and formulate a concrete plan for presentation in his first message-to-Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Brown Derby | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...exceedingly complicated: every expert has his own preferences in melting, moulding, dry-casting, wet-casting, as every etcher has his special tricks. Edgar Brandt keeps his methods secret and will not let his workmen find out more about his processes than he can help. No one will ever know just how he made Rodman Wanamaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Earth in an Urn | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

Legge and Leland did not know there was a crippled child involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fawn | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

Marcellus Hartley Dodge Jr., 19, junior at Princeton, grandnephew of John Davison Rockefeller, is spending his summer Dick" on the Randall, O-T-O near dude ranch of Livingston, Mont. "Pretty One afternoon last week, a non-dude native remarked: "These Easterners don't know nothing about ridin'." Young Dodge, piqued, boarded a wild steer, rode him without falling off, conquered him. Later, he performed creditably in a rodeo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 16, 1928 | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

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