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Word: rightness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Detestable and impious to all right-thinking Moslems were the wines, spirits and liqueurs introduced by "progressive" ex-King Amanullah, who was ousted when he went to the further extreme of commanding his women subjects to unveil their faces, his men to put their legs in trousers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Again, Water | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Kick Out, Kick In. Louder than words the Soviet raids said: "We mean business. China must yield to our demands respecting the Chinese Eastern Railway (TIME, July 22, et seq.). Under the treaty of 1924 we have the right to keep Russian officials on that line. You kicked them off last July. We have demanded ever since that they be reinstated. Our rights date back to Tsarist times, when Russian money built the Chinese Eastern Railway across Manchuria. We are ready to strike again. We have proved that you cannot resist us, even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA-CHINA: ''Not One Square Inch! | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Oberkoks. To E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. the Oberkoks Chemical Co. of Berlin last week agreed to give some stock and some cash. In return du Pont will give Oberkoks right to manufacture Duco products in its territory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Deals: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...clubmakers of Scotland from competing with the cheap, excellent products of U. S. factories, the Royal & Ancient Club of St. Andrews has long refused to let anyone use steel-shafted clubs in British golf tournaments. Last week the Royal & Ancient Club met, announced that steel shafts would be all right. Their reason: scarcity of good hickory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport Notes, Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...meet this request by repealing the state enforcement law. Some think that this prompt withdrawal of support in the face of his request would look life an unfriendly attitude. Others profess to think that it would not. Let everyone face the question honestly and decide for himself who are right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CARVER SUPPORTS HOOVER'S DRY PLEA | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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