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Word: mightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their cake?there was battle royal. In four smashing rounds Battling Snowden led with logical lefts and sarcastic rights, followed with a walloping ultimatum. He stooped to rabbit-punch with personal insults in the clinches, and at last sent his opponents reeling groggily with a blow that packed the might of the whole British Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Snowden v. Europe | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...adjourn. As a last resort the French started a rumor that J. P. Morgan would consent to act as "mediator," obviously hoped he would. When the story was spiked from a source close to Mr. Morgan, who was in Scotland last week, Prime Minister Aristide Briand intimated that France might make "substantial concessions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Snowden v. Europe | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...might have stepped out of the frame Of the portrait of the most handsome courtier who ever graced the court of a queen." Thus has Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden described the Empire's most important bachelor, potent patrician Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Palladin of Gold | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...gold bullion was regarded in London as distinctly ominous. Was the explanation that France ?on the eve of The Hague Reparations Conference?was amassing a spectacular gold reserve, swelling her credit to proud, unwonted dimensions, and generally preparing to overawe the Conference with a display of her fiscal might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Palladin of Gold | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...their Rooseveltian duty ever since. True, by the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1922 the status of "Independent Kingdom" was conferred on Egypt; but Imperial Britain reserved the right to "protect" her "ally" by keeping a military establishment in Egypt and a veritable army of occupation in the Sudan. Duty might have been done along this line indefinitely but for two developments: 1) Egyptian public opinion has crystalized against British occupation so sharply that Deputies returned at the last election were almost solidly anti-British and King Fuad of Egypt (a British puppet) had to dissolve the Egyptian Parliament for three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Magna Carta ? | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

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