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Word: least (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knowledge-and experience as a practical railroad man to cope with the task assigned him, because last week the Commission adopted and published its long-delayed plan for consolidating U. S. railroads. Eight years in the making, the I. C. C. plan is likely to take at least as long to execute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Merger Plan Hatched | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...likes his friends to call him?from a tariff archlobbyist to a full-fledged Senator caused some of his more volatile colleagues to gag and splutter furiously. In the end, for all the uproar against him, he took his seat with the apparent certainty of retaining it at least until next year, when he will run for election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Strange Garret | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...right' very high up indeed," can smash small operators. Hip-pocket bootleggers, some boys not over 16, peddle booze "under the 'L' on Washington Street." In nearly every office building is at least one speakeasy. Boston police deliver good whiskey to customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Bawdy Boston | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...Almanach bore as a frontispiece the round olive face of fat King Fuad I of Egypt. Backed by the government of Great Britain, to whose Sovereign he has been sending presents of pink preserved milk (TIME, Dec. 16), Frontispiece Fuad has an excellent chance of retaining his throne at least until the next issue of the Almanach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bluebloods & Battleships | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

There are all sorts of Christmases, as the Vagabond very well knows. And if the day means one thing in Boston and another in Hamilton, if it means one thing to the man in the pulpit and another to the man in the street, it at least means something to them all. That, perhaps, is more than can be said of any other holiday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/20/1929 | See Source »

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