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Word: parte (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gold: The Agent General urges immediate resumption of gold coinage by Germany, since the "Gold reserves of the Reichsbank now stand at the highest point ever reached; and, for the greater part of this last year, the mark has been one of the strongest currencies in the world, from the standpoint of foreign exchanges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Germany Can Pay! | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...being funny and at the same time handsome. There is one such at the Metropolitan, Jeritza; but she, always uncomfortable in trousers, does not like the role. Who, then, last week, was to sing Rosenkavalier, already once postponed, when Soprano Greta Stueckgold, who had been selected for the part last week, fell sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rose Cavalier | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...time for tact on the bishop's part. All factions must be placated while the campaign for funds to complete the great cathedral was going on so Bishop Manning tactfully retained Dean Howard Chandler Robbins, who had been nominated by his predecessor. Broad dean and High bishop, they labored side by side in the vineyard, and the money came rolling in. During these years, now and then there were tiffs, but nothing critical. The skeleton of high-church Anglophilism never once so much as twittered. And finally the Gothic dream was fairly funded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Cathedral Skeleton | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...knock. The monk who answered found a cringing wretch there, broken with years of suffering: He identified himself as a onetime Colonel of the Kaiser's armies, personal friend of the Crown Prince, who had led his regiment gallantly to France. But a sense of guilt for his part in war obsessed him, and now he sought to make penitential amends, following the example of the gentle St. Francis of Assisi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Prussian Penance | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

...matter where he lives. It is played with a ball harder than a baseball, with big flat bats, with eleven men on a side, two batters (one at each wicket), a bowler, a wicketkeeper, and an interval of tiffin. The professional members of a team eat in a part of the clubhouse separate from the amateurs' and their names are printed without "Mr." in the lineups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cricket | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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