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Word: much (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maxwell said that two orphan boys resembled each other very much. Albert Einstein hunted around until he found that they were brothers, sons of the-same electro-magnetic mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Einstein's Field Theory | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Toward Wall Street last week the Federal Reserve Board shook a threatening finger, spoke a warning word. With loans to brokers standing at $5,669,000,000, the Board felt that too much money was being absorbed by the stockmarket, that other interests were being forced to pay too much for money they borrow, that indus-try as a whole was suffering from diversion of funds to brokers and speculators. It therefore expressed the opinion that a member of the Federal Reserve Banking System is "not within its reasonable claims for rediscount facilities" when it borrows Federal Reserve money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Federal Warning | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

Anaconda originated and centres in Montana, owning more than 3,300 acres of copper mines in and around Butte. It has recently received much publicity through litigation with W. A. Clark over title to various Montana copper properties (TIME, Sept. 3). Anaconda also has large foreign properties, notably the Chile Copper Co., acquired in 1923 from the Guggenheims and said to possess the largest copper deposit in the world; the Andes Copper Mining Co., also in Chile, and extensive zinc and lead holdings in Poland and Silesia. An extremely important Anaconda subsidiary is the American Brass Co., the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Strong Copper | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...American Smelting & Refining Co. is the world's largest smelting and refining organization, but is interested in lead and silver as well as in copper, and smelts and refines much ore produced by Kennecott, Phelps-Dodge, Utah and other copper concerns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Strong Copper | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...there was another consideration: if the jury should decide that Leonardo had been the painter, Sir Joseph's remarks might cost him as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Duveen on da Vinci | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

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