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Word: signed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Therefore, since the rules of the contest had bot been so framed as to keep out the experts, the Graphic proceeded two months after the game was over to disqualify them by embodying a number of additional ex post facto rules in an affidavit which they said winners must sign in order to get their awards. Probably not one winner in ten could truthfully sign the affidavit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 28, 1927 | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

...without further molestation to his native land, where he joined Lenin. In September, 1917, he was elected President of the Petrograd (Leningrad) Soviet; and the next year, as the first Commissar for Foreign Affairs, he conducted the peace negotiations for the Russians at Brest-Litovsk. He refused to sign the treaty that the Germans drew up, resigned and became Commissar for War, in whiqh capacity he organized the Red Army, now said to be the largest in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Decennial | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

...Gimbel Bros., Inc., will displace the sign of Kaufmann & Baer of Pitts burgh which Gimbel's own & operate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gimbel Cousins | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

...racing; the sign of Gemini; a Poem by Witter Bynner; a businesslike forecast by Edward Streeter; a drawing by C.D. Batchelor; some Praise of Circuses by Earl Chapin May; a Portrait in Words by Gertrude Stein; and a sketch by Janet Smalley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORROW'S ALMANACK. Burton Rascoe, Editor, William Morrow & Co., New York, 1927. | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

Personalities, on the whole, form the chief traditions of each college gen- eration. Professor Sophocles, with his cockerels and pullets in his study, each named after a Professor's wife, is not entirely forgotten. Miss M.R. Jones, known as Mr. Jones, keeping shop in the Square with a sign in front of her cakes and confections: "Gentlemen will not, others must not, touch," and John the Orangeman are still historic figures. But there are more modern notables to take their places. Max Keezer, supersleuth, will not soon be forgotten, and the historic remark of Arthur Clement: "The patrol wagon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tradition Is Young Idea, Not Musty Growth, at University | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

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