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Word: second (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week-more than ten years after the War-was Germany presented at Paris with a definite bill for reparations. The Dawes Plan fixed the maximum annual charge which Germany may be called upon to pay, but not the total sum. Last week at a plenary session of the Second Dawes Committee (TIME, Feb. 18, et seq.) the creditor powers presented Germany with a grand total reparations bill of $28,000,000,000, payable over 58 years.* Since the people of Germany roughly number 60,000,000, each man, woman, child and babe in the Reich is faced with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: 28 Billion Bill | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...month. The 2,523 entrants in the 29th annual tournament of the American Bowling Congress finished knocking down pins and carried away prize money amounting to more than $100,000. Outstanding was Adolph Unke of Milwaukee, who won the singles with a total of 728*, and took second place in the all events with 1,952. Otto Stein Jr., of St. Louis won the all events with 1,974. W. Kleca and P. Butler of Chicago were the doubles winners with 1,353 and the Hub Recreation team of Joliet, Ill., won the team event with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Next Alley | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...acquire two curacies near Paris. Bored, no doubt, as cure, he shortly resigned both posts and disappeared from anecdote till on his deathbed, surrounded by grieving friends, he joked at their grief. Much that is lost of Rabelais' personal history crops up in his story of "his second self," Panurge - cozener, roysterer, rhyme ster, philosopher, companion to Pantagruel, "a very gallant and proper man of his person, only that he was a little lecherous, and naturally subject to a kinde of disease, which at that time they called lack of money." Together these uncommonly good fellows rollicked and rioted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vagabond Monk | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...second, whose white beard cascades generously to his chest, accepted the nomination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Margolies' Yeshiva | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

Under Coach Jack Kelleher, new mentor of second team baseball. Harvard's second baseball team is rapidly rounding into form in preparation for its first game, with the Tufts Freshmen scheduled for Wednesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECOND UNIVERSITY NINE TO OPEN AGAINST TUFTS 1932 | 4/20/1929 | See Source »

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