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Word: seven (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, we know as sensible people that the tariff argument can and has been used for the purpose of covering a multitude of political sins ... a handy smoke screen." He pointed out that the Republican tariff plank was seven lines long in 1920, two pages long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: On the Border | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...police, reassured that they had found their man, spirited Hearst Correspondent Horan off to jail and grilled him for seven hours. They refused him a lawyer, refused to let him telephone, and only grudgingly allowed him to send out for a sandwich and what Mr. Horan later described as "a bottle of water." Over and over and over the Agents asked him how and from whom he obtained the secret details of the new Anglo-French naval agreement (TIME, Aug. 13 et seq.), first scooped and published throughout the U. S. by Hearst newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Whizz--the Police! | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

Finally, some seven years ago, King Christian X of Denmark welcomed home to Copenhagen his Imperial Aunt, and there last week ended the saga of the "Tsaritsa of Tears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Matoushka Tsaritsa | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...Dickeys discontinued their morning paper, threw all their efforts into their evening-Sunday paper, calling it the Journal-Post. Again and again the question is asked: Will all cities the size of Des Moines or Kansas City or Milwaukee or even Cleveland have eventually just one 24-hour, seven-day newspaper-a monopoly which supplies news as the electric light company supplies "juice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Urge to Merge | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

Courage, is a play constructed largely out of the bright sayings of children as made to a mother whose wisdom and tenderness is that of Dorothy Dix. Tom Barry wrote Courage and Janet Beecher, who has a public, played it. She was an extravagant widow with seven children; these with the exception of the youngest abused her for wasting their inheritance. The one who was loyal was rewarded when the lady next door, who had loved his pretty, boyish face, left him $500,000 when she died. Thus there was plenty dough for everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 22, 1928 | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

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