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Word: nice (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Furthermore, Mr. Slocum has contributed, in a journal of literary merit, an acute and forceful analysis of an important educational question. This Ajax must not be left in the middle of the road to defy steam-rollers. He is too nice and too generous-hearted for road material...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IMMODESTY OF PHI BETA KAPPA MEN WEARING KEYS IS FLOUTED BY MARTIN | 6/1/1928 | See Source »

Married. Lucien Muratore, 50, famed tenor, recent husband of Soprano Lina Cavalieri (whom he divorced because of her admiration for Mussolini); to Marie Therese Brissaud, 23, actress, of Paris; secretly, a month ago; at Nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 28, 1928 | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...Pont, 51. Although his duties have been wholly executive for a generation or more, he still retains a dexterous and discerning skill in the technical processes of the laboratory. His hands are not so habituated to the enormous weight of a pen as to hamper him in adjusting with nice precision scales which are sensitive to minute infinitesimals of a miligram. Naturally Technician Irénée du Pont is nonchalant though extremely circumspect in the presence of high explosives-a major product of the du Pont industries. His coolness in the presence of trinitrotoluene famed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Nitrates, Astronomy | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...made as she was leaving the Grand Central Palace: "What do I do with my little boy? Practically nothing. I read to him and he reads to me. I play games with him. When he acts up, I say to him: 'Hey, do you think that's nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Parents | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

Edwin L. James is a more than potent correspondent. From his sunny, second floor office on the Rue de la Paix he directs the Paris bureau of the New York Times. He is pungent, direct, slangy-and yet he loves nice things. For example he has a penchant for sheer shirts of purest silk embroidered: "E. L. J." Recently stocky dynamic Correspondent James threw his shirts together in Paris and set out for Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Prospect of Death | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

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