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Word: presse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very refreshing to me to observe that all I have said concerning him in my book: Egypt's Past, Present and Future (just off the press) has been verified by his own Governments-Baldwin's and MacDonald's. ''Howellhaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 19, 1929 | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

City dwellers with beery intent slip into shadowy doorways, knock or ring cabalistically, whisper passwords through peepholes, gratings, chained portals. Dry-voting country dwellers blithely bear in the grape and the apple, press the ripe fruit, catch the juice, hoard it away. When winter comes they have a convivial cup. Long and loudly have urbanites protested this disparity of Prohibition. Last week city men envied country men when Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran issued to his agents this edict: "The National Prohibition act authorizes . . . unrestricted manufacture of non-intoxicating cider and fruit juice in the home. . . . Conditions: . . . 1) it shall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Farmers' Friend | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...Whether Brazilian editors knew it or not. Miss Brazil was but one of many Manhattan arrivals from far lands for the Galveston contest. Her presence, like theirs, received nothing more than routine mention, even in the tabloid press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Joke | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

Besides adding to the Ellis duties, the merger will almost double American Boy circulation, already well past 300,000. Youth's Companion, started as a Sunday School weekly in 1827, grew slowly, steadily, was bought out by the Atlantic Monthly Press (Little, Brown & Co.) in 1924. Changed to a monthly to celebrate its 100th anniversary two years ago, last year it included some 250,000 U. S. boys on its subscription list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Boys | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...speculated on the personality of Inventor Edison whom he had seen only in the cinemas. Last week he and 48 other boys, specially chosen as the "brightest" from each state and the District of Columbia, inspected the famed laboratory, met Thomas Alva Edison, matched knowledge in what the daily press excitedly heralded as "The Edison Brain Derby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brightest Boys | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

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