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Word: occasionals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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That sweetening of labor which is a salary bonus sifted unexpectedly and in unusual ways upon three working groups last week. In Manhattan, each employe of the First National Bank discovered one morning a novel mid-year gift, an unexpected bonus equal to his entire year's salary. At...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bonuses | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

Amid virtually continuous cheering, Deputies representing all parties rose to thank Mr. Smith with similar warmth. The occasion marked the termination of League control over Hungarian state finance. Stenographers raced to catch every word of the torrent of laudation. Typesetters, printers, binders, rushed these heartfelt phrases into a vellum-bound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Noble Puritan | 7/5/1926 | See Source »

Meteorologist William H. Hoover was recalled from a solar observatory in the Argentine to travel to Mt. Brukkaros in Southwest Africa where Dr. Charles G. Abbott of the National Geographic Society, after studying sites in the Sahara, Egypt, the Sinai Peninsula and Baluchistan, last year discovered an ideal spot for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Expeditions: Jul. 5, 1926 | 7/5/1926 | See Source »

¶ For the second time within a year the President visited a Government office. First occasion, five minute inspection of the Office of the Secretary of War; second, four minute inspection of handsome charts showing the work at the Veterans' Bureau.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Jun. 28, 1926 | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

On Sunday Bishop Thomas Louis Heylen, of Namur, in France, for 20 years the president of the Permanent Committee of the Internation Eucharistic Congresses, celebrated High Mass at Holy Name Cathedral, decorated for the occasion by green, scarlet, gold and silver drapes. Eleven cardinals heard him. (The twelfth, Cardinal O...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Demonstration of Faith | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

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