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Word: tensed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Crown Prince came back to the Land of the Rising Sun, official orders prescribed that full reverence be accorded to him, which meant there must be absolutely no noise. The sight of a white figure stepping from the launch, which landed the prince, was too much for his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: A Royal Romance | 12/31/1923 | See Source »

The implications of Mr. Mellon's tax reduction scheme were brought out in the discussion which followed the proposal. No predictions were so sensational as those of Roger Ward Babson. Mr. Babson, 48-year-old statistician of Wellesley Hills, Mass., is President of Babson's Statistical Organization, originator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mathematics | 11/26/1923 | See Source »

But now there are few who care just how hard Lake could plunge, or how many men Heffelfinger could take care of at once. The stars of today command all the attention and their admirers follow every action blissfully indifferent to the fact that in another twenty-five years few...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PAST AND FUTURE. | 11/24/1923 | See Source »

Nov. 7, 1923, sixth anniversary of the Russian Bolshevik revolution, was celebrated in Moscow by a great review, with tens of thousands of soldiers marching through Red Square. There were brass bands; hundreds of children, on trucks, sang the Internationale as small Italian boys now sing Giovinezza.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: A Red-Letter Day | 11/19/1923 | See Source »

But, the imbroglio of oil interests will be even more absorbing. As gasoline can be produced at tens cents per gallon, there is no doubt as to the course open to the Standard Oil Company. A startling reduction will be the immediate results; the battle of price-slashing that follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INDUSTRIAL SQUEAKS | 10/8/1923 | See Source »

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