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Word: mightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...motherhood an act of God? This question, involving all the profundities of metaphysics, faith and physiology might well give pause to anyone, however learned. The answer YES would surely affront countless atheists, agnostics. The answer NO would just as surely anger multitudes of the pious. Yet several men were actually confronted with this question last week and expected to make a public reply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Act of God? | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...spotlight was not on him) to say good-bye and make friendly suggestions. Also came (impossible in a less civilized country) the leader of the Opposition, Stanley Baldwin, the ousted Conservative chief saying "good-bye-good luck" to the installed Labor Chief, for the general good it might do England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Voyage Exploratory | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...Prime Minister, was discovered buying apparel for the trip. Laborite feelings were reassured by news that she and her father intended to live from three suitcases apiece-he trusting to luck for golf clubs if they should be usable, she upon diplomatic courtesy for anything her natural complexion might not conquer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Voyage Exploratory | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...signed a contract to make sound-cinemas, believes that "everyone will soon be running to the cinema to take their music in this new form." In Chicago Louis Eckstein wrote a check for $103,458.50, half the deficit of the Ravinia Opera so that an ardently enthusiastic Chicago public might continue to have summer opera. Said he: "Art pays dividends in beauty. It cannot be expected to pay in material things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...Already jubilant over these signs of prosperity, railroad men heard with interest last week that a non-railroad man was working on an experiment which might materially lessen operating costs. The experiment was a Timken Tapered Roller Bearing-equipped locomotive. The experimenter was Henry Holiday Timken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fast Wheels | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

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