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Word: pointedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Bookman protested that "a direct and open critical attack on any well advertised and well established literary figure in whom a great deal of capital has been invested in publishing and publicity by great publishers is all but impossible in the United States" it overlooked the very pointed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THUMBS, UP AND DOWN | 4/13/1927 | See Source »

Last week President Coolidge talked and thought canals. Senator Walter E. Edge of New Jersey, Chairman of the Interoceanic Canals Committee of the Senate had, among others, recently looked inquisitively into the waters of the Panama Canal; he talked persuasively to the President, of the need for a Nicaragua canal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Canals | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

No anchorite of Wall Street, President Baker yet inherently dislikes publicity. That reticence, among other factors, prevented Mayor James Walker of New York City appointing Mr. Baker police commissioner last year, although Mr. Baker's friends assured Mayor Walker that the banker would accept the appointment as an obligation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Banks | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

Years hence, when the definitive biography of Henry Ford is written, there will be a paragraph beginning with the hour of 8:25 on the Sunday evening of March 27, 1927. At that moment he, aged 64, climbed into a Ford coupe at his factory laboratories at Dearborn, Mich., pointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hero | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

John Huss (he spelled it Hus) of Bohemia was tied to a stake in 1415. Hysterical peasants and zealous priests pointed to a pile of fagots at his feet, again asked him to recant his life's teachings. He replied with his eyes on the clouds: "God is my...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: HERETIC OR HERO | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

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