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Word: pocketsful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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3) "Every ten-cent advance in the cost of crude rubber means an assessment of about $75,000,000 against America." Thus, in 1925, the Rubber Restriction Act of Great Britain is likely to take at least $100,000,000 out of U. S. pockets.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Caoutchouc | 4/13/1925 | See Source »

Mr. Caraway stuck his hands into his customary pockets and, eyeing the tailored vestments of his opponent, drawled: "Well, the farmers I knew didn't wear long-tailed coats and white vests."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Political Notes: Feb. 16, 1925 | 2/16/1925 | See Source »

Someone asks at once who put the cigarettes and the matches there. Admittedly, we are at fault, but what would you have us do put them in our pockets, or eat them? We might be requested to stop smoking, but I think an easier solution would be for the college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL-- | 2/16/1925 | See Source »

The Business School is doing a great and noble work. Take some of the little known economic effects of the eclipse. They are too numerous to mention and will certainly not all wear away in this generation; but take just one: When the moon slithered across the face of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/30/1925 | See Source »

Independence is a good thing, but it needs to be approached with circumspection, else in the capturing it yields and entirely vanishes. But many-a great many-Filipino politicians are not concerned with independence, for the advocacy of it gains their ends; and to achieve independence would deprive them of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Opera Bouffe | 12/29/1924 | See Source »

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