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Word: licensees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The first newspaper ever printed in this country met the same fate dealt the first gesture towards press censorship and the first attempt to set up a commercial printing shop: "Publick Occurrances both Foreign and Domestick," appeared on September 26, 1690, and was immediately forbidden from the Colonies. The Governor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard College Sponsored First Printing Press Set Up in U. S. A. | 11/30/1928 | See Source »

¶ Five of the six New England Governors (all but Rhode Island's Aram J. Pothier) sat down together in the waiting room of Boston's new North Station. The room had been converted for the moment into a banquet hall. They watched a light go on, made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Coolidge Fund | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

* Poetic license. Snowdrifts are blue-grey at dawn, do not look white until after sunrise.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The President-Elect | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

These young men have been accustomed to consider themselves superior to their female counterparts. But Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe has now sternly ruled that each gigolo must obtain a license and carry an identity card exactly similar to those issued to common prostitutes.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Gigolos Licensed | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Shocked London bobbies halted repeatedly, last fortnight, a hard-faced, middle-aged woman who sped up and down Piccadilly in a tiny, three-wheeled automobile. Why had it no license? Why had she no license? Shrewd, the woman spoke her alibi: "It hasn't any license, and I haven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Shrewd | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

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