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Word: tensely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Maryland's company took up deck golf, shuffleboard, trapshooting. Except for the President-elect's customary tall stiff collar, every one changed entirely to tropical clothes. Will Irwin, writing for the New York World, reported: "The atmosphere is courteous and pleasant, without formality, and everything is '...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Chief Yeoman | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

In thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, money poured into the national political treasuries. The G. O. P. was first to announce a figure surpassing the $4,000,000 estimates set at the beginning of the campaign. National Republican Treasurer Joseph Randolph Nutt took pains to explain that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

His was an audience of peers, 300 U. S. industrialists directing corporations whose assets totaled tens of billions of dollars, whose balance sheets have been the index of U. S. prosperity. A tycoon addressed tycoons.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Tycoons | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

To commute is not to migrate. So decided the Supreme Court of the U. S. last week in refusing to review the cases of one Mary Cook and one Antonio Danelon, two inhabitants of Niagara Falls, Ont., who, like many other Canadians cross the U. S. line every day to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Canadian Commuters | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

One of her treasures, carefully stored at Buckingham Palace, is a color film of Their Majesties' Coronation, in 1910. Since direct color cinemas could not be taken, at that time. every one of the tens of thousands of film photographs was colored by hand, by patient Germans.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Reel | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

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