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Word: referse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your issue of Aug. 12, p. 50, under Medicine refers to drunkenness. I am moved by this article to give you the definition of Dean Samuel F. Mordecai, late of the Law School of Duke University:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 2, 1929 | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

A section in the Foreign News column of your Aug. 19 issue of TIME refers to one Prince Mohammed Ali of Egypt.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 2, 1929 | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

It's a Wise Child. Many are the ways in which a girl can rid herself of a distasteful fiancé. One of the simpler and more startling expedients is to tell him that she is with child. Joyce Stanton (Mildred McCoy) makes this strategic confession to G. A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Aug. 19, 1929 | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

WEST RIDING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE refers to a great manufacturing region of England. The members may or may not ride, have horses; their chief vocation is the manufacturing of woolen goods. Either Senator Smoot was intentionally misleading, or unintentionally ignorant. It would be equally as bad for some Englishman to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 12, 1929 | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

*Spotted, or being put on the spot, usually refers to being lured by supposed friends to a place within the aim of waiting gunmen.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 12, 1929 | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

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