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Word: signed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...majority should possess a corresponding right to withdraw their acceptance of the special conditions attached by the United States"; and with the suggestion than an "understanding" on No. V could be reached after the U. S. was in the Court. It is expected that the 55 Adherent Powers will sign this protocol and send the necessary individual invitations to the U. S. to "come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: World Court | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

Although lacrosse is not an official fall sport, Coach Lewis has issued a call for all Freshmen who are not engaged in any other sport to sign up at any time. The schedule this year will probably be larger, as Dartmouth, Williams, Brown and several other New England colleges are showing a greatly increased interest in the sport...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LACROSSE SQUAD OPENS PRACTICE UNDER LEWIS | 10/1/1926 | See Source »

...points in the blackness, 20 feet apart, flickers of light appeared, dancing white, blue, violet, spreading and leaping towards each other as the roar increased. Thousands of flaming lances stabbed the night horizontally, creating the halo of glowing purple known to electrical engineers as the "corona," a sign of wasting power. The crackle of sparks intensified, culminating in a fierce explosion, as a broad, jagged ribbon of blue-edged white flame leapt across the room from electrode to electrode. It was the hugest man-made spark in history and signified success in the testing of six new transformers, stepped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Spark | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

Ordinarily, when a distinguished jurist-statesman refuses an invitation to a public banquet, it is only necessary for him to use the words "sorry" and "impracticable," finish off with a sonorous and obviously academical paragraph of good wishes, and sign his name. Last week, however, Elihu Root, having said the ordinary thing to one Merwin Hart of Utica who had asked him to a dinner in honor of Senator James W. Wadsworth Jr., went on and on in a way that would have given any social secretary the willies. Midway in the long second paragraph Mr. Root's meaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Letter | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

Viennese cinema goers have surged in for weeks beneath a blazing sign: THE DRAMA OF MAYERLING. Such a title would have been unthinkable in the days when Austria-Hungary was an Empire, would have led to wholesale arrests for lèse-majesté. Even last week, in republican Austria, a young post office official, Ewald Laumann, 23, was driven to the last fringe of emotional hysteria by this curious, true drama of the Habsburgs, the mystery of which is not even yet revealed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: The Mystery of Mayerling | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

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