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Word: preventers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business of selling cars as well as spotting them will be hard put to it explaining just why one is better than another. Things have gotten so fine that the very difficulty of making a decision even when assisted by the gratuitous advices of well groomed salesmen may prevent the purchase...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIX OF ONE . . . | 6/5/1929 | See Source »

...Significance. By the unhappiness of Hans and Frau Grill, Novelist Edouard attempts to show the end of every peasant-noble union. Too good a psychologist, however, to prevent their becoming live individuals instead of idea-puppets, he succeeds in showing only that the couple were incompatible at times when many another husband or wife would have unearthed the remedy. He also shows how new people, people of money and power, took the place of the old nobility in his country. The social lesson is thus outmoded. If the author were to have lectured in the U. S. on the incompatibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Champagne & Potato-Soup | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

Would it not be much more sensible to abolish some of these officials altogether or if they must be retained, have them chosen by a form of competition? In order to prevent the stigma of "office-seeker" from being attached to any individual, the contestants should be named by the nominating committee, with the possibility of adding names by petition as is now the custom. This system could be successfully applied at least to the offices of class poet and class odist. The poems submitted by these men should be voted on as to their merit but should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 5/29/1929 | See Source »

First Suit. Five tributaries of the Delaware River, which flows through New Jersey, rise in New York. New York, declares New Jersey, is now planning to construct dams and reservoirs to turn much of the water from those five tributaries to its own use. New Jersey would prevent New York from so doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: N. J. v. N. Y. | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

Second Suit. New York City deposits its rubbish, its refuse, its garbage in the Atlantic Ocean, most of which eventually reaches New Jersey's shoals, white-sand beaches. New Jersey would prevent New York from so littering its bathing grounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: N. J. v. N. Y. | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

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