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Word: sisterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Queen Mary, accompanied by Princess Mary and the 60-year-old Princess Victoria, the King's sister, descended at Bognor upon the local Woolworth's threepenny and sixpenny shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Royalty | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...have lately returned from a journey among our sister Republics. . . . We wish only for the maintenance of their independence. . . . While we have had wars in the western hemisphere yet on the whole the record is in encouraging contrast with other parts of the world. . . . It is impossible, my countrymen, to speak of Peace without profound emotion. In thousands of homes in America, in millions of homes around the world, there are vacant chairs. It would be a shameful confession of our unworthiness if it should develop that we have abandoned the hope for which all these men died. Surely civilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: My Countrymen | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Also, of course, Mr. & Mrs. Coolidge left the White House behind. On inauguration eve they had Mr. and Mrs. Hoover, Senator Curtis and Mrs. E. E. Gann, the Senator's sister, to dinner and showed the new President and first lady their new quarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Takings & Leavings | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Shortly after that, Han's unmarried sister gave birth to a son. Han proclaimed him the promised leader. Worshippers came to see the babe, to touch the sigil. Han called the child the Emperor of Heaven and a cult grew about him called the Heavenly Gates. Today the Emperor of Heaven is two years old. As yet he has done nothing remarkable. But in the Honan province he has many worshippers who are allied in a secret society. And recently Han purchased arms to protect the Heavenly Gates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Virgin Birth | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

Elisabeth Morrow arrived from Manhattan in Mexico City to be with her sister Anne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 4, 1929 | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

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