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Word: remains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Superintendent McAndrew reached the door. The voice of the board's president, J. Lewis Coath, reached him: "Will the superintendent please remain?" Superintendent McAndrew's short, broad-shouldered form passed the door jam. Mayor Thompson's figurative teeth gnashed. One of them broke from the denture. It was Walter J. Raymer, Chicago banker, theretofore docile member of the board. He cried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: McAndrew Walks Out | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...Radio Commission to die. Commissioner John F. Dillon died in September. Last week Commissioner Henry A. Bellows, high power salesman of his own optimistic ideas and the dominant member of the commission, resigned. Only Commissioners Orestes H. Caldwell and Judge Eugene O. Sykes of the original five remain and only the appointment of Commissioner Sykes has received Senate confirmation. Last week President Coolidge named Sam Pickard a commissioner. He had been the Commission's secretary. Another new appointment is Harold Lafount. They have no chairman. When the commissioners organize they will probably again rearrange wave lengths assigned to broadcasters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: World Radio | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

Thus there will remain but two U. S. companies making typewriters only-L. C. Smith & Corona Typewriters Inc. and the Royal Typewriter Co. The Victor Adding Machine Co. also makes the Victor portable typewriter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Underwood-Elliott-Fisher | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...Gorilla is one of those productions which are offered with the request that the circumstances of the plot remain undivulged. Since the plot is the picture, there remains little to be said; except that an enormous artificial animal in the title role makes it very exciting for the rest of the cast and the entire audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 5, 1927 | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...juvenile delinquency, the disappearance of disorderly houses, the reduction of deaths due to alcoholism, are demolished with an angry despatch. The book "is designed to serve as an intellectual, clean and honest argument for the side which it represents." Whether it is as conclusive an argument as it seems remains (as all arguments without umpires must remain) a matter of opinion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Mania | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

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