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Word: parte (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the early part of last week stockholders of Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston were proud of their investment. They knew their company was in a strong position, furnishing electric light and power to a population of 1,280,000 in Boston and 37 neighboring towns. They knew it had recently soared to 440 on the announcement of a four-for-one split...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Boston Edison | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...editorial, "can only represent a self-serving and partisan view. Therefore it corrupts the stream of public information. What the world needs is truth, all sides of every story, written by disinterested hands, with sources carefully identified.'' The editorial ended by stating that "newspaperdom, or that part of it which is conscientiously devoted to independent action that the people may know all, would greatly rejoice if President Butler would put the key into the door of this particular classroom and turn it for all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Columbia Flayed | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...that, despite his greying hair and prowess at the bar, he is a small boy beset by vultures. Sharing his enthusiasm for roses and stamp-collecting, she wins his confidence, lures him away to her camp in the hills, where, after a great deal of coy urgency on her part, he consents to stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...Last week the New Yorker, Manhattan weekly smartchart, told how a gentleman aboard the Mauretania en route for Manhattan last June, spent the better part of four afternoons on a sequestered deck-bench reading Authoress Delmar's Loose Ladies. The reader was John Pierpont Morgan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Belmar's Delmar | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...Oglala", flagship of a mine squadron which played an important part in laying the North Sea Mine Barrage during the World War, is now in the Navy Yard, undergoing repairs to refit it for service in the U. S. Navy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Captain of Mine Layer "Oglala" Explains Workings of T.N.T. Sea Bomb--Ship Built in 1907 for Eastern Steamship Lines | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

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