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Word: reporter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heard that the Committee on Privileges and Elections had decided to inquire into the charges against Senator-designate and Senator-elect Frank L. Smith before making a report. Thus, it becomes certain that Colonel Smith will not be allowed to take his seat in the Senate this session...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Legislative Week Feb. 21, 1927 | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...Valuable studies have been made but, unfortunately, are not followed or, in general, practiced in motion picture theatres. One such report states: "By proper distribution of the light, the general illumination of the interior of a motion picture theatre may be raised to a considerable extent above the values in common use without causing any appreciable loss of quality in the projected picture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POOR LIGHTING IN MOVIE THEATRES CAUSES BLINDNESS, AUTHORITY SAYS | 2/17/1927 | See Source »

...TIME of Jan. 31, under PEOPLE you report the fact that Sir Harry MacLennan Lauder, famous Scotch comedian, wrote from West Virginia to England in favor of Sunday observance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 14, 1927 | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...smoke in the presence of a lady would have been equivalent to an unforgivable slight. . . . The captain of the Queen's Guard at St. James's Palace concluded his daily report with his signed certificate that 'no smoking had taken place in any of the rooms'. . . . The Iron Duke (of Wellington) himself declared: '. . . The practice of smoking by the use of pipes, cigars and cheroots . . . is not only in itself a species of intoxication occasioned by the fumes of tobacco, but undoubtedly occasions drinking and tippling by those who acquire the habit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Father of the Guards | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...question of fecundating the borrowed ovaries, one must make new experiments, for in scientific research it is necessary to have much patience." Scientists awaited the publication of Dr. Voronoff's full report on human-ovaried Nora, meantime noting as fallacies in Dr. Voronoff's reports to date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: No Ape-Child | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

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