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Word: manly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...give the Board a headstart on the wheat problem, the Department of Agriculture last week began a nationwide movement to get wheat-growers to increase their own storage facilities on the farm. Purpose: if each wheat man stored a part of his own crop, the autumn market peak would be diminished, prices would be steadied, car shortages and terminal embargoes would be avoided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Harvest Race | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...Collier's magazine, at a new way of enforcing Prohibition. Excerpts: "Every soldier and sailor has taken an oath to sustain the laws of the land. We already have a standing army ready and able to enforce all laws in every foot of the land and a man at the helm-Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy-who has taken a solemn oath to protect, defend and enforce the federal Constitution and the laws of Congress enacted thereunder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Soldiers Now Idle . . . | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...Webster gives the following definition of a gentleman "Law, A respectable man who engages in no occupation or profession regularly for gain." British Gentlemen, like British Peers, are listed annually in Burke's Landed Gentry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cabinet Salaries | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...last week by Dr. Eugene L. Fisk of the Life Extension Institute in Manhattan. In the interests of science Dr. Fisk removed all the clothing from a dozen men and women, carefully weighed the respective garments, found that the average woman wore 2½ Ib. of clothing, the average man 8½. Itemizing the costume of a young woman and a man, apparently conservative, picked at random, he discovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Troublesome Buttons | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...WOMAN MAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Troublesome Buttons | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

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