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Word: seven (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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WHILE I AM SURE IT WAS NOT INTENTIONAL I HAVE BEEN QUITE SERIOUSLY EMBARRASSED BECAUSE OF AN ERROR WHICH OCCURRED IN YOUR ISSUE OF JULY 23 PAGE SEVEN REFERRING TO ME AS BEING IN FAVOR OF THE ELECTION OF THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT STOP NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE FACT STOP HERBERT HOOVER IS IN MY OPINION BETTER QUALIFIED FOR THAT OFFICE THAN ANY CANDIDATE WHO HAS EVER BEEN NAMED BY ANY PARTY STOP I AM MOST DESIROUS OF AIDING IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE TO BRING ABOUT HIS ELECTION...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 6, 1928 | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...course of the evening Senator Moses was persuaded to accept a new title-Vice Chairman of the Advisory Committee. Dr. Work remained chairman of this body, ex-officio. Senator Moses' chief duty would be to aid in the Congressional campaign, with special reference to the seven Senate seats held by Democrats between Maryland and Maine. Resilient, Senator Moses declared that he was satisfied. "Serious differences are sometimes characteristic of strong-minded men," he said. "I should say that just now harmony is at least a foot thick hereabouts." And off he dashed to Dublin, N. H., to enlist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Strong-Minded Men | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...Bright, N. J., one evening last week, a village policeman spied seven nude girls bathing in the Atlantic Ocean. He cried out at them. One of them retorted: "Go look at the law, will ya?" He did. The law specifically prohibited nude bathing from 6 a. m. to 9 p. m. It was after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Too Late | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...descended from monkeys, but state that they know they are, because the Congo Monkeys still occasionally live with them. . . . Their Belgian Majesties of course avoided the terrors and obscenities of the Pigmy Forest, last week, merely sailing past its extremity in a prim Congo steamer. Near Stanleyville the "Seven Cataracts of the Congo" or "Stanley Falls" halted the royal steamer, and King & Queen were obliged to motor around the Cataracts. Before proceeding downstream to the Atlantic (1,500 miles) King Albert received the homage of several onetime cannibal tribes, two being notorious backsliders. A sprinkling of Pigmies had been drummed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Majesties to Congo | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...each of the seven seas, tankers of Standard Oil of New York meet tankers of Royal Dutch-Shell Oil, bow and do not speak. Last week, Standard Oil of New Jersey reminded the two great rivals that neither has the world's largest tank fleet. The Chester O. Swain, acquired last week and named for a director of the New Jersey Standard, is the company's 96th tanker, the 40th operated under the U. S. flag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: 96th Tanker | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

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