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Word: things (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary Davis prepared to set off to inspect personally the progress of another thing in which his Department is concerned, Mississippi flood-control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Water Works | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...paper does not pretend to be a mirror of undergraduate thought. Every Harvard man knows, or comes to know, that there is no such thing at Harvard as composite undergraduate thought. The CRIMSON avowedly expresses the attitude only of its own editors..." September...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/22/1928 | See Source »

...Moses of New Hampshire, brisk, sanguine, ironic, emphatic, is the Senate's President Pro Tern., i.e., first deputy when the Vice President leaves his rostrum for a snooze, stroll or conference. Senator Moses was Hooverizer of the East, another reason why he "rates" the position. Seemingly, only one thing could keep Senator Moses from being elected second-most-important man in the Senate chamber. That thing would be the same thing- whatever it was-for which Senator Moses was restrained from being his really dominant self in the Hoover campaign. The only imaginable thing that this thing could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: In the Greatest Club | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...make her music. Pianist Perez played first but the evening began with the clicking of castanets in the wings and the gliding entrance of La Argentina. She was tired and languorous as the sun that used to warm her; she was glittering and remote; she was a primitive thing driving away evil spirits to the fire music made from de Falla's Amor Brujo, snapping her fingers, clucking her tongue; a comic spirit cavorting on a peasant's holiday. She danced without accompaniment, was herself the musician, playing a busy bass with her heels while her castanets turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Creature & Castanets | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...electrical moisture gauge, which puts to practical use the knowledge that the more moisture a thing contains, the easier electricity can flow through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Moisture Gauge | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

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