Word: numberous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next morning-Feb. 13-I got my first number of your TIME. For the first time in my life I saw the pictured face of Eugene O'Neill: on my writing table was a . . . portrait of Andreyev. I placed my hand over the lower part of O'Neill's face, and our Leonid's eyes confronted me, his fine brow and wave of dark hair (tidier, though). As to my hopeful expectation regarding TIME it is more than satisfied...
Results. Chosen were both a new Sejm (Chamber) and a new Senate. In the former Marshal Pilsudski obtained roughtly twice as many Deputies as are adherent to any other group, but even so his cohorts number not quite one-third of the Sejm as a whole. The great confusion of party lines made it difficult for even the Marshal to count his Deputies with exactness, but he claimed 150 out of a Sejm of 474. The only trend discernible among the other parties was a leftward shift which virtually undermined the formerly potent Nationalist bloc and slightly swelled the ranks...
...Employment in all vital industries is now the highest on record, and the number of persons still unemployed has sunk from 300,000 in 1926 to less than...
This year, as usual, the show came in like a mad March lion. It was noted that two themes had preoccupied the attention of many of the most absurd artists; one was Death, the other was Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Novel materials for expressing alleged thoughts were few in number; the most noteworthy was a three dimensional drawing, or skeleton sculpture, of a she-wolf giving suck to two small boys. The lines of the she-wolf's body were indicated in copper wire; her mammary glands were represented by door stops. Of the other exhibits...
...African jungles, overlooking a beautiful lake, three weeks by motor from the nearest town, the capital of Kenya. Here dwelt for nearly four years Hunter-Photographer Martin Johnson & wife, a pet monkey, a Boer mechanic, a native maid for Mrs. Johnson, nearly 200 native servants and an incredible number of supplies necessary for the making of good pictures, moving and still. Here meandered, day and night, elephants, "the good natured (until roused) bourgeois of the forest," the always bad-humored rhinos, the stupid hippopotami, dainty Abyssinian bushbucks and their antelope and gazelle cousins, gossipy baboons, antbear and wart hogs, genets...