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Word: standings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aimee Semple McPherson, marcelled evangelist, asked the members of a Denver audience who were willing to give $1 to combat Satan to stand up. Only a few rose. "Play The Star-Spangled Banner," she told her bandsmen. All rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 12, 1929 | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...judges know of this quantitative test. They depend upon the layman's crude idea of drunkenness?can the accused walk a straight line, can he stand on one leg, can he clearly enunciate "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." Perhaps a medico-legal diagnosis of just what does constitute drunkenness may evolve for the world from clinical investigations which Belgium's Societe de medecine legale now has under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drunkenness | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...word that comes hard to New York's Mayor James John Walker. One day last week he was quite incapable of uttering it when a Non-Partisan Committee of 682 New York citizens waited upon him at the City Hall, asked him to stand for reelection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Who Could Say 'No'? | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...tomcat, nine times Prime Minister of France, incomparably her most winning, sonorous orator. Whereas M. Poin-caré had piled the Chamber's rostrum mountains high with notes and documents, shrewd B'rer Briand with a droll little gesture laid one of his visiting cards on the stand before him and commenced his spellbinding quite extempore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Debt Wrangle | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

Eloquent, devoted Dr. Herzl, were he , alive today, might visit or live in Tel Aviv, first Zionist city, population 50,000. Its shrubbery, stucco residences, theatre, opera house and 50 schools stand on the dunes outside Jaffa, Palestine. Hebrew alone is spoken. The name of Herzl is almost sacred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Zion's Herzl | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

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