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Word: potently (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Most potent of those who moved from North China to Nanking last week was Ihe estimable Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, famed "Model Governor" of Shansi Province...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Yen to Nanking | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...Potent denial of such deductions came (Continued on p. 19) (Continued from p. 75) last week from Mme. Debuchi who showed her complete awareness of modern Japan by speaking to correspondents thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Larger Girls | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...failure, tottered and crumpled all over the stage and Janos, the forester, escaped through it, back to his wife who was waiting dinner for him. Interesting and incredible, the play was chiefly remarkable for the stage devices it contained; stage devices, since the invention of the cinema, are less potent than they used to be to evoke illusions and it was in displaying his unique skill in their construction that Producer Belasco really sang his swan song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 24, 1928 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

Engaged. Helen Train, daughter of Author Arthur Cheney Train (Mr. Tutt stories) of Manhattan & Bar Harbor; to Charles Dewey Hilles Jr., Manhattan lawyer, son of the potent New York State Republican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 24, 1928 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

Adolphus Busch, whose beer is not as potent as it used to be, and the late Festus John Wade, banker, have had two public schools in St. Louis, Mo., named for them. Last week, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union protested, because Brewer Busch's onetime beverage "is now outlawed by the Constitution of our country" and because Banker Wade was a Roman Catholic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 24, 1928 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

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