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Word: pointedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: In your edition of May 27, p. 44, under the caption of Golden Jubilee, you omitted to mention the most important glass bulb without which the incandescent lamp would be impossible. The credit for the development of producing these bulbs on the scale required today belongs to the Corning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 17, 1929 | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

Webb, Sidney, erudite Secretary of State for the colonies and dominions. Long nosed, with pince-nez glasses and a pointed chin beard, Sidney Vebb is a noted author, one of Britain's greatest political economists. In these works his partner is his no-less intellectual wife, Beatrice Potter Webb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Origins Analyzed | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

Eleven points in favor of adopting a uniform minor "H" were pointed out by the committee in its report, which showed that all opinion appeared to be unanimous in favor of the change. This change, which has been steadily supported by the CRIMSON, will inevitably help minor sports in Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A STEP FORWARD | 6/12/1929 | See Source »

The crafty "Christian General" pointed out that with Feng and the "Soong Dynasty" resigned, the last of the Chinese militarists would be removed from power and the Government could fall into the hands of civilians, one of Dr. Sun's most cherished ambitions. Further, wrote Marshal Feng, President Chiang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Soong Dynasty | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

In Hollywood last week from Chicago arrived one Charles Loeb, German actor, rouged, dressed in checked pants, derby, tap-dance shoes. He travelled by express in a wooden box pointed at the ends so that he would not be stood on his head. His purpose: To "crash" the Pathe studios...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 10, 1929 | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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