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Word: nors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Minister Louw opens his legation in Washington, he will find his duties commercial, not political. There are no diplomatic issues now pending between the U. S. A. and the U. S. A. Nor will he have to learn his job, for he knows U. S. business well, was onetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: U.S.A. to U.S.A. | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

City dwellers with beery intent slip into shadowy doorways, knock or ring cabalistically, whisper passwords through peepholes, gratings, chained portals. Dry-voting country dwellers blithely bear in the grape and the apple, press the ripe fruit, catch the juice, hoard it away. When winter comes they have a convivial cup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Farmers' Friend | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Improvement in railway net operating income has generally resulted not so much from increases in gross income as from decreases in operating costs. Railroads are being more efficiently run, and by more capable managers. Nor is there any more typical example of the modern rail executive than Southern Pacific's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Revived Rails | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

A sun not bought nor sold.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Homo Americanisatus | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

MURDER AT BRATTOX GRANGE-John Rhode-Dodd, Mead ($2). When Sir Hector Davidson was found dead with a metal file driven through his heart, only one person was seriously suspected, Guy Davidson, the heir. First the police charged Guy with the murder; then even Dr. Priestley, famed criminologist whom Guy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Club-Murder | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

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