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Word: satâ (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1929-1929
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Calvin Coolidge, a director of New York Life Insurance Co., started from his Northampton home last week to attend a board meeting in Manhattan. In the Northampton station he sat???and sat. No train came. Director Coolidge eyed his watch, sat some more, in silence. After a half-hour, a station employé asked him what he was waiting for. Together they discovered that Director Coolidge had mistaken standard for daylight saving time. ... In Manhattan, Director Coolidge did not attend a performance of The Little Show, new revue. But a portly gentlewoman with a large handbag did attend, in an aisle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: may 20, 1929 | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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