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Word: pointedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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When this motion dismally failed to pass, newsgatherers one and all cabled that the cardinal principle of the Hoover plan had been rejected. Apparently this "news" was taken very ill at the White House. Next day the State Department pointed out that the Litvinov motion had not been voted down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Battling for Reduction | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

North-of-Europe cartoonists have been making sport of the Italo-Papal Treaty & Concordat ever since it was signed (TIME, Feb. 18). The idea that Dictator Mussolini purposes to use the Catholic Church as a sword of conquest was cartooned lately with savage power in Amsterdam's Notenkraker (Nut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAPAL STATE: Salute | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

At a symposium on the structure of molecules, Dr. Irving Langmuir, President of the Society and assistant director of research for General Electric Co., told of studies of oil films on water. Experiment showed that these films are only one molecule thick, all molecules arranged in one direction, with "their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: All Chemistry | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

"I stand at the window and I see automobiles and the wheels turning and smoke coming out of chimneys and people walking around, and I can't believe it. Think of seeing my son. Do you know, the nurses had to tell me what things were. I would ask...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: First Sight | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

Harvard's undergraduate daily, The CRIMSON, has made some pointed remarks about the administration's general attitude towards publicity. While it admits that Harvard does not need any advertising yet it says "People are interested in Harvard, among them 50,000 graduates. Even if they are given no information, they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 5/11/1929 | See Source »

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