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Word: numberous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate is made up of a number of men . . . but there are about a dozen who call themselves Republicans who owe no real allegiance to our party. . . . We have seen the results in the agriculture bill*. . . . What is to be done? We can't blame the President. ... If he had nine lives, he might devote five of them to these men but he would not gain their votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: No. 6 Man | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...Hearst's editors took care to point out that the Hearst modification contest had attracted more than three times the number of entries which were submitted last autumn in William Crapo Durant's enforcement contest for the same size prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Act of God | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...Dawes Plan of 1924 fixed the annual sum Germany must pay her creditors (595 million dollars) but left undecided the total sum, or the number of years in which final payment was to be made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Draft C | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...custom. But guests from Town last weekend had plenty to talk about. Britain's "dullest election within the memory of living man" had dragged out its serpentine length and finally, suddenly snapped a cracker off its tail. Contrary to expert expectations,* final results snowed Labor with the greatest number of seats in the House of Commons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Labor's Day | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...Introduction of a bill to provide a reapportionment which would increase the number of House seats in districts where Liberal votes are many, House seats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Labor's Day | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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