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Word: pointedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Returning last week from the Orient with its usual July load of tourists, plantation owners, white scientists, dark Oriental traders, the S. S. Tenyo Maru steamed through the Golden Gate. Watching the San Francisco skyline was a young Chinese woman, dressed in the smartest U. S. style?Mrs. Sui'e...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mrs. Kao's Catastrophe | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

For a few minutes the face of M. Chiappe threatened to upset the government of France. Prime Minister Poincaré and Minister Tardieu pleaded anxiously with Deputy Dormann, pointed to the gleeful faces of the Opposition, told M. Dormann that he was being used as a parliamentary tool to overturn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Crucial Slap | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

The transition of Radio Corp. from a communications company to an entertainment company is a story in several chapters. In 1919, when Radio Corp. was formed, it was organized solely for the purpose of transmitting wireless messages. At that time Great Britain, long dominant in cable communication, was also the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Radio into Talkies | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

When Marie of Rumania made her famed U. S. tour (1926), Her Majesty was scheduled to appear over the National Broadcasting Co.'s chain. She was to give one of her many endorsements. Temperamental, she at first attempted to call off her appearance, then arrived at the studio a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Radio into Talkies | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

So, in 1870, said Captain Rowland H. Macy, onetime whaling skipper, then a storekeeper, to his daughter. Thirty-two years later the R. H. Macy & Co. store was located on the corner (34th and Broadway) which the Captain had pointed out. Last week Macy's climaxed more than 70 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bamberger to Macy | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

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