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Word: restfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last summer a Michigan commission searched for the rest of the lost bodies. With the greatest difficulty 86 were found; eleven were left in France. Russian peasants were hostile, had to be bribed to reveal each grave. One town the Soviet Government, cooperating with the U. S., threatened to plow up in toto unless its inhabitants gave up the U. S. dead. In another case a Russian woman had nursed, fallen in love with and then buried a wounded U. S. officer. First she tried to misguide the searchers from the grave. When they found it by an ikon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Home from War | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...apparently has proved successful. Dr. Gordon's success gained the Department of Agriculture's cachet last week. Rice Price Steddom. chief of the Federal Meat Inspection Service, offered to release to reputable physicians, medical institutions and pharmaceutical manufacturers all possible fetal livers which reach slaughter. But the rest of the unborn carcasses may not be marketed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fetal Livers | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Juma is the Turkish sabbath. Because it falls on Friday, Turkish business houses with international connections and the government itself are out of step with the rest of the world three days a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Mephisto v. Allah | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...tabled before the National Assembly a bill which, if taken up and passed, would make the first day of the Turkish week fall on what is now the third, the second on the fourth, the third on the fifth, and so on. This would make Juma, the day of rest and worship, fall on the Christian Sunday, yet preserve the traditional sequence of Turkish days of the week. Even simpler than daylight saving, the Kemal plan is open to only one objection: possibly Allah will not like to be worshipped on Jehovah's day. Until popular feeling on this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Mephisto v. Allah | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...kick. The audience bore with them, however, and was amply rewarded by some of the most thrilling works of art that it had ever seen. Kreutzberg and Georgi were on the crest of the wave from the moment he did his masterly "Revolte". And they stayed there for the rest of the program, rising to their greatest heights in a Debussy interpretation, "Romantic Scene", "Three Mad Figures", "Persian Song" and "Russian Dance...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 12/6/1929 | See Source »

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