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Word: staffs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Board, presided over by Admiral Charles F. Hughes, Chief of Staff, passed by ten of the first 15 captains on the eligible list. The chance of a captain to become a rear-admiral was thus 3 to 1, against. Last year it was 2.7 to 1, against. Captain Thomas Tingey Craven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Braid Men | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

...going to cancel my subscription, but next time you write such nonsense I shall send to every dentist in the country, photos and fingerprints of TIME'S staff and then you will get what is coming to you, eventually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 25, 1928 | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

...with one white star on a blue field in upper staff corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Nationalist Notes | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

...Everyone knows of the terrific battle between Hearst and Pulitzer. Hearst lured the entire Sunday staff away from the World and also captured Arthur Brisbane when Pulitzer refused to let Brisbane write signed editorial comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Anywhere, Everywhere | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

...greatest surprises of my life came when I discovered that the library staff considered certain books, no matter how valuable as reference books, as too truthful for the students. It seemed absured that a college would take such a stand as to refuse an opportunity for knowledge to residents of the college, even though or rather because, such knowledge lay outside their field. I refer to the series of studies on sex by Hayelock Ellis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 6/16/1928 | See Source »

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