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Word: somes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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I suggest that in future you use single, double, triple and so on dashes according to the number of letters in the words deleted. Thus if one of your correspondents referred to some person as a - - - - -- it would offend no one, and at the same time members of the Ancient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mister's Cuffs | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Herman Devries, Chicago Evening American: "The choir is the greatest of its kind in America, perhaps in the world." Frederick Ramig, Cleve- land Times: "Dr. Christiansen has the greatest vocal ensemble this country has ever heard. The St. Olaf Lutheran Choir is the criterion for all choirs." Richard Spamer, St...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mister's Cuffs | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Some 30 miles northwest of Chicago is a model farm. It is operated wholly by electricity. Cows are curried with vacuum cleaners, milked with suction machinery. Automatic clocks flash strong lights on roosting hens in the evening and before dawn to arouse them to the possibility of laying extra eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Relief, Yet Again | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

There are some 200 Infantry Colonels in the U. S. Army. Every four years one of them becomes a Major General simultaneously with his appointment by the President to be Chief of Infantry. This promotion came, last week, to squat, solid Col. Stephen O. Fuqua, 54, commander of the 16th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: General Managers | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Democratic opposition to a G. O. P. tariff was still fluid. Alfred Emanuel Smith, in the campaign, had declared for a "compensatory tariff," to which many a Democratic Congressman heedlessly pledged himself. Tennessee's Democratic Cordell Hull of the Ways & Means Committee alone had raised a John-The-Baptist cry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Lion- Tiger-Wolf | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

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