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Word: parkes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lantern-toting tycoon. The cause: TIME'S in sinuation that a strictly residential tub ever figured in a decidedly out of character bathing episode. Glared Archimedes. "Eureka, but they have forgotten," sighed the scientific Syracusan with a gravity more than specific. H. E. PICKETT Oilman Country School, Roland Park, Baltimore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 4, 1929 | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...story of the Harris Amendment must now leave the halls of the Capitol and be resumed in a building across the park. There an ancient office equipped with a creaking rolltop desk is proclaimed by a weather-worn sign on second story windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Money No Object | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...Italian State Tourist Bureau. Wrote he, apostrophizing Editor Carli: "Perhaps, as you say, there are travelers who would like to transform Italy into a large scale gaming house, have jazz bands playing under the dome of St. Peter's, or turn the Coliseum into an amusement park. You may berate such people all you like, but for heaven's sake don't exaggerate, and at least have the courtesy not to ignore the fact that there are serious-minded persons who have a conception of tourists as fitting in perfectly with our national program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: All Highest Duce | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...weighed 375 pounds. Last summer, he weighed only 341 pounds when he easily won the prize for fattest boy and ate his share of 15,000 quarts of ice cream, 10,000 quarts of milk and five tons of crackers at a Tammany children's party in Central Park (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 28, 1929 | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

Clothes. The name "Fashion Park Associates Inc." was chosen last week to include the products of three famed haberdasheries, newly merged: Weber & Heilbroner, Inc., Stein-Bloch Co., Fashion Park Inc. Capitalized at $10,000,000, Fashion Park Associates will soon acquire control of Metropolitan Co. (Dayton, Ohio), Max Adler Co. (South Bend, Ind.), L. E. Oppenheim & Co. (Bay City, Mich.), Oppenheim's (Jackson, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mergers: Jan. 28, 1929 | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

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