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Word: lefts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three minutes, until the Sever bell jangles twice. The student goes back to his room, collects his suitcase and overcoat and sprints for the subway. Just twenty minutes to make the train at South Station! In the station he is informed politely but firmly that the train has left your watch is slow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD CHRONOLOGY | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...chronically disagreed with Secretary Mellon's ideas on taxation, particularly the inheritance tax, which the Administration wants repealed. Mr. Green fought the repeal because he thought it would benefit only a small class of rich people; because he thought taxes on estates are too easily evaded when left to the States to levy*and because it irks him to see fortunes made in the West and taken East to be spent, enjoyed, inherited. Lately, however, Iowa has favored repealing the inheritance tax, too. Pressure from behind as well as above persuaded Mr. Green to accept a post which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The House Week Mar. 5, 1928 | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

Undismayed, Mayor Thompson left town, going to Washington to have a fat finger in the larger political business of Flood Control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Chicago Pineapples | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...take advantage of the magnanimity of such a creature. Can they doubt that with powers such as it possesses it could blast them from the face of the earth? Witches could be burned, but a poltergeist that can change his habitation from person to person at will is best left alone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENTER THE POLTERGEIST | 3/3/1928 | See Source »

...shock of Sayles' death upset Tony so much that Natalie found him no longer pliant to her attractions. He took her back to Gortion in the face of a finger-pointing Berkenmeer, left the assets of the aviation company (which Gortion had purchased) at zero, hopped a freight for Peoria, saying: "Jeeze! . . . That society stuff was beginning to get on my nerves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Parachute | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

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