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Word: perhapses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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It appears that perhaps the Allies have been guilty, however, on this occasion. At the time when the Experts were called together many observers insisted that the time was inauspicious. And the delays which the German delegation have thrown in the way of the Committee seem to indicate that they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DAWES MAZE | 5/28/1929 | See Source »

Perhaps it was good statesmanship for Herr Schacht to attempt to postpone the close of the conference until after the British elections. He is not to be blamed for the too early convocation of the committee. But confidence throughout Europe has received a great blow from the dilatory tactics of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DAWES MAZE | 5/28/1929 | See Source »

"It is due to the high arsenic content of the soil that these skeletons have been so well preserved," said a Sorbonne professor inspecting a cadaver whose clutching fingers showed the agony of his death. "This portion of the prison dates from the 12th Century, perhaps earlier." Skeletons sat upright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Soupspoons jor Steam Shovels | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

May also marks the founding of the League of Red Cross Societies by the late great Henry Pomeroy Davison. Red Cross work is the outgrowth of Florence Nightingale's nursing British soldiers during England's Crimean War against Russia and of the Swiss philanthropist Henri Dunant's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Manhattan Birth Control | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

To Roger Steffan, onetime Ohio grocery boy, came last week a vice presidency in National City Bank. Many a young bank employe has, disgruntled, alleged that banks promote by seniority, that Age outranks Ability. Yet Banker Steffan, vice president of largest U. S. Bank, is but 36. Born in an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Young Executive | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

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