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Word: lee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That makes him 51 years old and just about eight months younger than Calvin Coolidge. It is generally reported that as a child he was precocious. As the campaign goes on, the accounts of this precocity will be amplified. At any rate he was graduated from Washington and Lee University at the age of 19. Three years later he took his LL.B. at the same place. From 1915 on, he annexed a whole string of LL.D.' here, in England, in Scotland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: This Davis | 7/21/1924 | See Source »

John William was now a lawyer. First he practiced with his father, J. J. Davis, who had been a member of Congress. Then he returned to Washington and Lee as an instructor and later went back to his father's office. Then he served a term in the State Assembly. His father advised him not to go there a second time; so he stuck to the law until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: This Davis | 7/21/1924 | See Source »

...Philadelphia, 2,000 men of law hushed their private conversations at the bang of Robert E. Lee Saner's gavel. Forthwith he, as President, opened the 47th Annual Convention of the American Bar Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Annual Convention | 7/21/1924 | See Source »

...Majestic (White Star)?Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, sculptress; Cass Gilbert, famed architect; Max Steuer, famed Manhattan lawyer; Morris Gest, theatrical producer; Vassily Katchaloff, leading actor of the Moscow Art Theatre; Lee Shubert, theatrical producer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming & Going: Jul. 14, 1924 | 7/14/1924 | See Source »

Semon-he cannot make all the ice cream, so he makes the best. (P. 18.) The united product of grandparents named McGregor, Lee, O'Brien and Schurz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Jun. 30, 1924 | 6/30/1924 | See Source »

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