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Word: lineal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first day of every Japanese year, while the sun is rising, ten poems are read as pompously as possible to the Son of Heaven, His Imperial Majesty the Emperor Hirohito, 124th lineal descendant of the Sun Goddess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Rocks at the Ocean's Fringe | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...Power & Light, American Power & Light, American & Foreign Power, American Superpower, American & Foreign Power, though a Bond & Share company, has little community of interest with the other rumorees, carries on only abroad. Superpower, a Bonbright & Co., child, does extraordinarily well as it is. The other three rumorees, however, are direct, lineal descendants in the Bond & Share genealogy of holding companies, sub-holding companies, operators. A move which would merge these, put one in place of three, sounded logical to many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Utilities | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Claiming to be a lineal descendant of George Washington,* Mrs. Francois Berger Moran goes marketing in an ermine coat. Herbert Hoover used her house last autumn as a campaign headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Gann Goes Out | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

Since His Majesty is the 124th lineal descendant of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu-0-Mikami, such appeals are regarded as a deadly sacrilege and sin. Nonetheless last week, when Emperor Hirohito rode out to open Parliament, a burly farmer from Saitama Province burst through the cordon of Imperial police and groveled sinfully before the Son of Heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Out Devils, In Luck! | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...latter from Wellesley. Mrs. Chiang is younger than Mrs. Hoover, and it is no disparagement to say that her own family, the great House of Soong, is more potent. Mrs. Chiang's brother is Finance Minister T. V. Soong; one of her brothers-in-law is the 75th lineal descendant of Confucius, H. H. Kung; a second was the late Dr. Sun Yatsen, sainted father of the Nationalist Party which now dominates all China. Since Mrs. Hoover's father was a prosperous American banker and Mrs. Chiang's a vastly rich Chinamerchant, neither has ever been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Potent Mrs. Chiang | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

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