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Word: plazas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plans call for a quadrangular development containing a new hotel, community building (postoffice, town hall, library), blocks of shops, a plaza, a park. Estimated cost: $10,000,000. President of the improvement corporation is Edgar Palmer, potent townsman, Princeton alumnus (1903), board chairman of New Jersey Zinc Co., financier (realty, railroads, insurance, public utilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Princeton Town | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

...steamer to New York was available, and the despatches of Prime Minister Judd reached England in advance of the Paulet des patches. England disavowed the action of Cap tain Paulet, and the English Admiral Thomas was sent to restore the Hawaiian flag, which ceremony took place in the plaza now known as Thomas Square. Mrs. Wilder's eldest son, G. P. Wilder, is a well known horticulturist, and has improved the Hawaiian mango. He and his wife have spent some time in Tahiti, investigating the origin of the Taro, the native food of the Pacific Islanders. On the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 22, 1929 | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

Count Maxence de Polignac, member of one of France's oldest noble families, was, last week, taking a bath in his apartment in Manhattan's Hotel Savoy-Plaza. In his rooms were several bottles of champagne, some cognac. The Count intended giving a dinner. But before he had finished his bath Federal agents entered his apartment, seized the liquor, discovered and seized also a pistol, arrested the bather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Polignac With Pistol | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...York City, Empire Day was celebrated at the Hotel Plaza. Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador to the U. S., addressed the members of the newly formed British Commonwealth Club. His speech was chiefly explanatory. He said...

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

...Juarez, a fortnight ago, to the rebel forces in Chihuahua with 400 Ibs. of nitroglycerine in the cockpit, a cigaret between his lips, and a pint of tequila (cactus wine) on his hip, he has been a hero to the rebels. Black-eyed wenches smile at him in the plaza of an evening, but Amorous "Red" Mohan is a very Tristram for constancy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Amorous Red Mohan | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

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