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Word: pocketsful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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By the coincidences of the place and the date, of the books in the rescued youth's velveteen coat pockets, and by characteristic sentiments on liberty, death, diet and various conventions including matrimony which he soon voices, it comes evident that our hero is Poet Shelley, until now supposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Dec. 13, 1926 | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

A balance should be maintained between debt reductions and tax reductions which is fair to all interests in our country. We know now we shall have a considerable surplus in the fiscal year 1927 ending next June. The President has suggested a credit on taxes yet to be paid during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Surplus-Removal | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

Mr. Stephenson had by this time bought an airplane and with one Court Asher, a onetime army aviator, his secretary, clerk, and majordomo, he toured Indiana, talking to the crowds that came out on the fields to hear him. Sometimes he talked in the afternoons; sometimes at night by searchlights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KU KLUX KLAN: Gentlemen from Indiana | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

--Some there are, have been, will be, who worry at the building project of the Lady of Learning. "Why," they ask, "did not John Harvard dig into his pockets and save the day." The answer is obvious, John Harvard dug, and well, he went back to his chair before University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WIDOW MOVES | 10/7/1926 | See Source »

Our Federal and state laws are increasing at the rate of about ten thousand a year. Thing of the New York policeman who carries in his pockets a list of the sixteen thousand ordinances and regulations which he is expected to enforce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLITICAL FUND AMENTALISM IS REPUDIATED BY MUNRO | 10/1/1926 | See Source »

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