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Word: protractedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such beliefs identify Mr. Coolidge with the well-to-do Man in the Street, but aside from merits thus appropriate to a democratic state, they have little value. They ignore scores of shamefully protracted trials, and they give the abstract lie to scores of meaningful psychological statistics. Harry Elmer Barnes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LOST LEADER | 6/2/1928 | See Source »

¶ Mrs. Coolidge returned to Washington from Northampton, Mass., where her mother, Mrs. Lemira Goodhue, was stronger but not fully recovered from protracted influenza.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Mar. 19, 1928 | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

Thus was protraction protracted. Many another oil bigwig?including Beman Gates Dawes, brother of Vice President Dawes and board chairman of the Pure Oil Co., which was one of the original owners of the much-bickered oil bought and sold by Continental?yielded nothing illuminating on the witness stand. Col...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Old Oil | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

Eleven members constitute the Board. Six of them, a majority, could vote the superintendent out of office. Last week it appeared as though six of them, hearty henchmen of William Hale Thompson, would vote Mr. McAndrew out. The trial seemed but a protracted formality. But it was of interest, outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Merry McAndrew | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

* False. A death shock consists of 1,500 to 2,000 volts of electricity. The resistance of the prisoner's body would not produce 1,000 degrees of heat unless the current were continued for about four and one-half minutes. Because of its high voltage, the death shock does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: At Geneva | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

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