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Word: live (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatly have times changed! So far has the mind of America turned around the corner from the liberalism of the first decade of this century to the conservatism of today! Roosevelt will live in our history, not as a great President, but as a great agitator like Isaiah and Elijah. He stood in the courts of democracy and thundered the truth about its corruption of King Demos into its teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Roosevelt Day | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

Benito Mussolini waited quietly until the mob thinned sufficiently for his car to proceed. As he drove away the cheering rose to a roar: "Long live the Duce! .... Death to his enemies! .... Woe to him who touches the Savior of Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Woe. . . | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...China. The area of China is a million square miles greater than that of the United States. China is larger than the United States, Mexico and Central America combined. It is larger than all Europe. More than four hundred million, or one-fourth of the people of the earth, live in China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Strawn Speaks | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

Meantime, the steel ark's Noah, Dr. William M. Mann, proceeded from Boston to the National Zoological Park at Washington, which he superintends, with some 1,700 other African creatures loaded on eight trucks, and ushered all safely into permanent captivity. It was the end of the largest live-animal-collecting expedition of modern times, which all started when Manufacturer Walter P. Chrysler (automobiles) heard that Washington urchins lamented the lack of giraffes, zebras and "rhinoc'ruses" in the nation's zoo (TiME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Horde | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

Privately run jails for young ladies of rich families make special dispensations for escape from 2 until 5.30 so that young chits who spend week-days learning what color stationery to use, may really learn about life, as 53,000 people live in the Harvard Stadium. And the poor starved idiots come and ape their bettens by talking about the wonder grows when the newspapers get hold of it. A nice, comfortable little crowed of 10,000 become 75,000 in the Sunday morning mammoths...

Author: By K. D. X., | Title: THE CRIME | 11/6/1926 | See Source »

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