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Word: occasionals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mr. Ford also took occasion to hint that he, like the Packard Company, was developing a new motor for aviation. He then proceeded to Alexandria, Va., to buy antiques.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Visitations | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...agents even assisted rum-runners to unload their cargoes. He said: "No effort, so far as we can see, is made by the U. S. to seize any of these boats. The U. S. customs always are notified by us an hour or two before the boats leave and occasionally we notify them as the boats are leaving. . . . U. S. customs officials have requested the Canadian authorities to discontinue our daily telephone notifications of clearance of liquor-laden vessels and have asked them to mail them weekly notifications instead. . . . There should be more convincing proof that our neighbors are doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Minister on Rumboat | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

Leaning nonchalantly on the platform railing was plump, pale-eyed Stanley Baldwin, Britain's Prime Minister. While the Bishop prayed, Prime Minister Baldwin mumbled in response and read through his own speech, preoccupied, apparently oblivious to the solemnity of the occasion. Prayers over, he mounted the rostrum. Cocking his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Empire Day | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

President Lowell completed twenty years last week as President of Harvard and we find in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin an appreciative summing-up of his accomplishments during the period. President Lowell's leading interest when he assumed command in 1909 was in quality of performance. With this key to his...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Felicitates | 6/1/1929 | See Source »

The chief speakers for the occasion will be President M. E. Woolley of Mount Holyoke College, Professor A. N. Whitehead of the Department of Philosophy, and President Lowell. Bishop W. J. Lawrence will give the introduction and the benediction at the close of the ceremony. The Alumni dinner June 1...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILL CELEBRATE SEMI-CENTENNIAL FRIDAY MORNING | 5/29/1929 | See Source »

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