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...Putsch!" Seventeen times during one night last week Berlin policemen rapped thunderously upon the doors of prominent Monarchists, burst in when they were not instantly admitted, ransacked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Luther Rests | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

...rate of words is high, the world does not so fully realize how many of them are born crippled. The burden of that knowledge intimates Dr. Frank H. Vizetelly. Managing Editor of the New Standard Dictionary, rests upon the compiler of a lexicon. Within two days he has reserved seventeen barbarities aspiring to a legitimate place in the world's least redundant book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DICTIONEERING | 4/1/1926 | See Source »

...middle of the first page and a one column head. But the front pages of three Republican papers, The New York Herald-Tribune, The Boston Herald, and The Boston Transcript, were guiltless of the news. It found one column space on page three of the Tribune and on page seventeen of the Herald. In the Transcript, it did not appear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOADING THE DICE | 2/20/1926 | See Source »

...last war proved that man-power is available for every need. Four million men can be sworn in as fast as they can raise their right hands. However, it was also demonstrated that there must be seventeen men backing up each man with material, if he is to be effective on the front...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEFENSE MEANS NOT ARMY BUT INDUSTRY | 1/26/1926 | See Source »

Hello, Lola. Booth Tarkington's novelized report of puppy love and its perils reached the stage agreeably enough and amused many people. It has now wandered farther afield to become a musical comedy, rather less happily. Reference is made of course to Seventeen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 25, 1926 | 1/25/1926 | See Source »

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