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Word: mightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many a M. Jourdain has suffered himself to be so humiliated in order that might taste the excitement of riding over the frosted fields, in the wake of a curving pack, after some red and frightned vixen! Now, this week, all over the J. S., fox-hunting approaches the crest of its season. At Meadow Brook and Radnor, at Warrenton and Millbrook, at Onwentsia and Milwaukee, the riders trot through the dark mists of dawn to gather, as light breaks, at a country gate or a cross roads between fields fenced with wood. Kids on stumpy ponies and millionaires slithering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horns & Huntsmen | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...industrial reporter of the already venerable Cincinnati Gazette covered the Grasselli Chemical Co.'s formal opening in 1839, he might have learned that Founder Eugene Grasselli's family had been chemists for 400 years, since first they made gunpowder and perfume in Torno, Italy. He could not have learned, however, that the company would move to Cleveland after the Civil War. and would there prosper mightily producing fertilizers, zinc metal, zinc dust, explosives, aspirin, until finally, under Grandson Thomas Saxton Grasselli, it would have 22 factories and assets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Friable Messes | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...held only 240 tons. These facts, known to all miners, were particularly familiar to a vagabond prospector, George Carson, called the "Desert Rat." For 23 years, he had wandered from mine to mine, pursuing an idea. The idea was a smelter which men could load from the side, which might hold twice or three times as much ore as the old top-charging furnace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Anaconda's Troubles | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

Washington sat for three portraits. Of these, one was scratched out by Stuart ; the other two were retained unfinished by him in order that he might copy and sell them in quantities. When he needed money, said his daughter, he would copy one in a few hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thrills & Dales | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...advisable to explain for the benefit of those members of the University who know nothing about it something of its origin and purpose. The Fund was founded late in 1925 by a group of Alumni who felt that the graduate body should have an organization through which a man might contribute each year to the University a small or large amount of money, according to his individual means, entirely for unrestricted use. An Alumni board known as the Harvard Fund Council, consisting of 30 members each to serve six years, was formed to administer the Fund. From 1925 to Commencement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McCORD EXPLAINS FUND ORIGIN AND PURPOSES | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

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