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Word: unites (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reported to have lost it, Jimmy Gibbs, 7, who had a ticket on Favorite Cragadour, part interest in which his father sold for $60,000 before the race, Engineer Arthur Court of Indianapolis who invested one reluctant dollar in the English Derby charity Sweepstakes (Army and Navy Veterans, Quebec, Unit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Epsom Derby | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...order to arrive at a correct judgment upon the total record in a course, a value must be assigned to each of its components. Unless the final grade is to be no more than a rough approximation of the true value of the work done in a course, a unit of measurement must be adopted and all letter grades recomputed in terms of that unit. For example, how much weight should be assigned to the final examination and to the weekly papers, respectively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What are Finals Worth? | 6/15/1929 | See Source »

...feet; monotonous planning, usually in squares, which wearied the mind. The Chicago planners are determined to permit none of these fatiguing conventions. Architecture will be imaginative rather than historical. Transportation will be ubiquitous (monorails, moving sidewalks, boats). Planning will be organic, molding the entire Fair into an architectural unit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fair Plans | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

Perhaps hardest hit by the merger, however, was the German motor car industry which, with its largest unit (Opel) already a General Motors affiliate, and with one of its most menacing invaders (Ford) now backed by the resources of Germany's largest company, appeared more than ever unable to hold its own against U. S. competition. One outstanding difference between the General Motors-Opel and the Ford-I. G. F. arrangements was that General Motors bought into Opel, whereas I. G. F. bought into Ford. To discuss these international operations in warlike terms, the Ford-I. G. F. purchase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ford & I. G. F. | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...fate of the other buildings in the block to be occupied by the new house unit has not yet been definitely determined...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOLYOKE STREET HOUSE TO BE MOVED FOR HOUSE PLAN | 6/8/1929 | See Source »

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