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Word: life (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There are an increasing number of individuals who have sufficient resources to enable them to minister in the most substantial way to the humanitarian and artistic side of life. . . . So many of our people have large amounts of property that it is taken on the aspect of being common.* It is doubtful if there ever was a time when great wealth gave its possessors so little power as at present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: U. S. Taj | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...McKenny, publisher of the Macon News, had waited there in his parked car to eye the wet Tammany candidate. Publisher McKenny's News was the largest and perhaps bitterest anti-Smith organ in Georgia. As the Smith car vanished, Publisher McKenny, who is a Kiwanian, a Methodist and a life-long prohibitionist, boasted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoover & Smith | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

Paul von Hindenburg, President of Germany, eyed last week, for the first time in his life, a cinema. It was shown for his especial benefit at the censor's office. Its name was Waterloo. President von Hindenburg asked whether anyone had been hurt in the filming of the battle scenes, smiled when reassured there were no real casualties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 11, 1929 | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...minutes he fought the fight of his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Jolly Place | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...blasphemous farce [by condoning divorce]. No man has a right to ask a bishop to be a party to any such disgusting and gross act of blasphemy. If you don't like it, go to a register office and say 'I will take you until you make life absolutely impossible, and then I will be done with you.' That is the honest thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Go to a Register . . . | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

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