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Word: tensed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Geneva blossomed overnight. Before there had been little knots of industrious secrtaries and attaches. Suddenly one morning Geneva woke up to the opening of the session of the Council of the League of Nations. Foreign ministers were stepping into the city by tens. Ambassadors by scores, and here and there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Deliberations | 9/14/1925 | See Source »

Significance. Tens, hundreds of thousands of men and women will press this book to their bosoms with thanksgiving. Its morals, its figures of Vice and Virtue, could not be made clearer if they were printed in the block capitals and bright colors of a primer. The readers are practically certain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inspired Wright | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

But such questions were forgotten by the tens of thousands that watched the remains of Chitta Ranjan Das pass through the streets of Calcutta to their last resting place. He was a leader in a movement to democratize India by distributing political power among the villages. It was a task...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: An Indian's Journey | 6/29/1925 | See Source »

Spirit. "To the tens of thousands of production slaves out of whose very hides are tanned the hundreds of millions of Ford profits, he is looked upon as a mean, heartless miser and a hypocrite par excellence. A great spirit permeates the Ford organization (from the foremen up) known as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Anti-Ford | 6/15/1925 | See Source »

Today marks the return to Cambridge of a number of Harvard's most illustrious classes, as well as the ever welcome graduates who attend the Commencement week festivities regularly each June in informal groups. They will be held in awe and esteem by the undergraduate, for he regards them with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO THE GRADUATES | 6/15/1925 | See Source »

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