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Word: potently (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advertisement was indeed written in TIME style. It was indeed written by TIME staff. And furthermore it did not cost R. R. Donnelley & Sons 1?. TIME, proud of its new printer, was eager to introduce its 180,000 subscribers & newsstand buyers to the potent organization that prints the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the telephone book of many a U. S. city--and TIME. Let Dissenter Malcolm reread the advertisement; he will see that it did carry "its legitimate and proper signature." The advertisement was signed, thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 27, 1928 | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...contrast with the simple taste of the late Lord Oxford was that of "Margot," Countess of Oxford and Asquith, who permitted and participated in, last week, an ostentatious mourning service in Westminster Abbey. Belated, this took place on the day following the actual funeral. Formal, it drew phalanxes of potent Britons as well as the diplomatic corps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Oxford | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...Though Stefan Raditch is still the strongest politician among the potent Croats, he fails to evolve a majority which will support him and confesses that he cannot form a cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Little Emperor | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

Today, though the great Nikola Pashitch is dead, his family is still potent. Last week his daughter, Mile. Dara Pashitch, announced her engagement to a young Jugoslav who had previously been reported engaged to Miss Mary Landon Baker, Chicago heiress of a few millions. The fiance who got not dollars but a great name is comely Bojidar Puritch, recently Jugoslav Consul General at Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Little Emperor | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

...only veterans. Third place went to George M. Lott, Jr., Michigan undergraduate, the highest ranking ever bestowed upon the middle west. Notables conspicuous by absence from the lists owing to insufficient tennis activity in 1927 were William Johnston, for a dozen years in the first six; R. Norris Williams, potent defender of many a Davis Cup; Elizabeth Ryan, second woman in 1926, and Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ten | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

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