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Word: lifes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twelve recommendations were appended by Inspector Hoover to his report. Three of them were that ways should be studied to improve the construction of life-preservers, lifeboats, and lifeboat-tackle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Wake of the Vestris | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...During the week Her Majesty the Queen and Empress Mary unveiled a war memorial, spoke over the radio for the first time in her life. Complete speech: "To the glory of God and in honor of these brave men I unveil this memorial on behalf of .those for whom they died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Crown | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...increasing freedom from old established customs and traditions, and the number of women now earning salaries promises radical changes in the life of our nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Larger Girls | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...cathedral idea enthralls the minds of U.S. tycoons, spreads from cinema to insurance potentates. Therefore when famed Architect Cass Gilbert designed the new $21,000,000 New York Life Insurance building he Gothicized its decoration, planned its gigantic foyer in the cruciform shape of a nave and transepts. Like a huge stalagmite the structure stands on the site of the old Madison Square Garden, lifts its glinting spire 617 feet above the pavements. In a banquet hall on the 14th floor a dedicatory ceremony was held, last week. President Coolidge, button-punching at the White House, flooded the feast with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Insurance Cathedral | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...instantly. It would, he commented with juggernaut impassivity, "destroy armies as a man might snuff out a candle. . . . War, if it comes again, and is to be deadly, will never again be fought with shot & shell. It can't be, for it is too much cheaper to destroy life wholesale with this new gas. It may be manufactured at the rate of thousands of tons a day and it costs much less than powder & cannon, yet it will destroy armies more thoroughly, more effectively, and more cheaply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mares' Nest | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

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