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Word: lating (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bros, soaps, they are not the Lever Bros. soap. Leading Lever Bros, product is Sunlight Soap. The main Lever works are at Port Sunlight on England's Mersey River. Almost unknown in the U. S. is Sunlight, largest selling soap in the world. Not much better known was the late William Hesketh Lever, Lord Leverhulme (1851-1925). Yet he had an excellent claim to the title of World's Greatest Merchant and was certainly in the front rank of the World's Greatest Advertisers. It was also Lever Bros. search for raw materials that resulted in the first great industrial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lever Bros. | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

...world. Wherever he traveled he left behind him, in strategic spots, a Lever Bros, branch or a Lever Bros, subsidiary. France, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, the U. S.?even China was not too far distant. In 1906 he tried to arrange a consolidation of leading British soapmakers, but the late great Lord Northcliffe raised such an antitrust turmoil that the project was abandoned. Thereupon Mr. Lever sued Lord Northcliffe and other

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lever Bros. | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

Sued for Divorce. By Mrs. Ermina Carry Nicholson, daughter of the late Edward Francis Carry (onetime president of Pullman Co.); Col. W. F. Nicholson, U. S. A. retired, Pullman Co. vice president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 16, 1929 | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

Divorced. Sara Teasdale Filsinger, poetess (Helen of Troy and Other Poems, The Answering Voice?One Hundred Love Lyrics by Women?); from Ernst B. Filsin-ger of St. Louis, foreign trade expert (Lawrence & Co.); at Reno, Nev. Grounds: "From early morning until late at night he lived with his business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 16, 1929 | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

Masculinity-Femininity. Men are not entirely masculine, nor women entirely feminine, proclaimed the late Otto Weininger, brilliant German who blew out his brains at 24, just after appointment to Harvard's faculty. At Stanford University Lewis Madison Terman sought ways of measuring sex variations and found 908 points on which men and women differ according to their interests, trends, emotional reactions, preferences, aversions. One out of 100 men, he found, is more feminine than the average woman, one woman out of 100 more masculine than the average man. The sexes overlap in their traits. Living with a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Psychologists | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

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