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Word: signed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sums expended by Britain as agent for her Continental Allies were really more than counterbalanced by her own expenditures in their behalf. Ergo these sums cancel out of any discussion of the Anglo-U. S. debt. . .etc. . . . etc.. . . etc. . . . At this point the debate, though showing every sign of being continued ad infinitum, passed into the limbo where hairs are split-often by honest, well-intentioned men. The total result of last week's academic tilt was to rouse a majority of British editors to frenzied indignation at the U. S. Cartoons labeled "USury" were frequent in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Churchill v. Mellon | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

Vladimir Ilich Lenin bathed, personally, in blood as seldom as he could. When it became necessary to sign death warrants by the thousands and eventually by the tens of thousands, that task was passed on to Felix E. Dzerzhinsky, a Pole, the son of a little almost-bourgeois nobleman, the man whom Russian émigrés christened in sheer terror, "The Black Pope of Bolshevism." Last week he died in Moscow (of overwork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Black Pope | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

...Vatican heard without comment that drops of red liquid flowed from the eyes of an obscure "Virgin and Child," a fresco on a building now being demolished, in Milan. Townswomen insist this was blood and was a sign of the Virgin's displeasure "at the men folk, who swear too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Vatican Notes: Jul. 26, 1926 | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

...duty, cable ships fly a signal entitling them to the right of way. They need to follow a direct course (if paying out cable) or to stay with lengthy catch (if mending or taking in line). By day the sign is two red canvas globes with a white diamond between them; by night, lanterns hung, vertically, red above, and below, white between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cable | 7/19/1926 | See Source »

...penny the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, the Decalogue, two short prayers in Latin, his own name, motto, day of the month, year of the Lord, and reign of the Queen (Elizabeth). Nor did any of these know that such skill in forming minute letters is often a sign of nervous disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Witless | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

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