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Word: somes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Why haven't we had some news as to when and by whom the challenges being flung out by the Tobacco Interests will be taken up? Camels started the game by suggestively placing pretty women in their ads, Chesterfields followed by having their lady beg to have some blown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

I am a very careful reader of TIME, and think very highly of it. Hence I cannot help but register a little disapproval at some of your scientific "Bulls."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

The custom of singing carols had a definite Christian origin. Early Franciscan friars, strolling through Italy, put the tale of the birth of the Babe into homely ballad form, the better to win simple hearts. Over the Alps they went, throughout the World, singing of the sweet mystery of Bethlehem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 1932nd Anniversary | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

Newsman Steele concluded: "In the interest of Anglo-American amity it is hoped that Tunney does not carry out his intention of winding his cane about the neck of some persistent scribe, because the English are peculiar about such little matters, and likely would send Mr. Tunney to the jug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 24, 1928 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

In Fomona, Calif., 75 dwarfs met together to form the Small Men's Association of America, comprising only human beings less than four feet high, of which they became charter members. Midgets, little men who are not, like dwarfs, in some way stunted or deformed, could become associate members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Dec. 24, 1928 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

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