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Word: second (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seemingly it was not until the second or third day of such royal slumming that Edward of Wales fully and deeply sensed the misery around him. He reacted by demanding to see the books and pay sheets of several employers, and appeared scandalized when one such sheet showed that a gang of four men, working five shifts, received at the end of the week only 29 shillings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: This is Ghastly! | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

Miss Lenihan said she did not want to appear "sentimental" about fresh air and a baby, but stood on her renter's rights. The baby, not her child, is the son of her second cousin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 11, 1929 | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

Sculptor Davidson produced three models before he was satisfied. The first was the reposeful family La Follette. The second was a composite of qualities. The final version was the militant figure of the Senate chamber. It was the intimacy of the Russian journey which allowed the sculptor to rely so much on memory. But once his memory failed. The Senator's alert, responsive hands were elusive. Sculptor Davidson was baffled. Then to the Paris studio came the Senator's brilliant younger son, Philip La Follette, lecturer on law at the University of Wisconsin (TIME, Oct. 22). It is in this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: La Follette in Marble | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...shares was sold during the first day's trading, such famed names as Munsingwear (undergarb) and Pillsbury (flour) appearing on the list. There were 44 stocks dealt in by 41 traders. Exchange officers are: George F. Piper Jr., president; W. W. Eastman, first vice president; C. O. Kalman, second vice president; Neil P. McKinnon, secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Twin Cities | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...sight of an overturned roadster. They found under the car the body of a man, his head pinned beneath a front wheel. On the way to a hospital the injured man died. He was George Miller, millionaire ranchman, oilman, farmer-man, circus-man. With his death passed the second of the three Miller Brothers whose 101 Ranch was famed throughout the Southwest, whose 101 Ranch Wild West Show was famed throughout the world. Col. Joe Miller, onetime head of ranch and show, was found dead in his garage, killed by monoxide gas, less than a year ago. Surviving is Brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: 101 Ranch | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

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