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Word: upping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prime enforcer of Prohibition is Commissioner James M. Doran. Proudly his wife tells friends that she "brings up the reinforcements." Last week she marshaled a platoon of reinforcements in the form of recipes for nonalcoholic cocktails. She had prepared a Book of Juices to meet the onslaught of the "winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Mrs. Doran's Drinks | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

The larvae develop within the mosquito. Later the insect bites another human, disgorging at the instant one or more tiny worms. They burrow into the victim, seek out a lymph node, breed. Batches of them snarl themselves in the lymph passages causing inflammation, which blocks the free passage of lymph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: St. Kitt's Thread Worm | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

"Everyone either works or is kept by someone else!" snapped Lady Rhondda in a statement to reporters. "It is strange that Mr. Thomas, a Socialist, should be advocating idleness for any section of the community. It is ridiculous to say that it is against the interests of the nation for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

Up to Montreal with three stenographers bustled I. P. & P.'s stocky thick-lipped president, Archibald Robertson Graustein, onetime infant prodigy, brilliant Harvard scholar (TIME, April 29). Newsprint at $60 the ton was impossible! President Graustein had columns of figures at the tip of his tongue. Speaking with the authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Premier v. Pulpster | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

In Paris, soldiers, statesmen and war veterans paid tribute to the memory of France's great fighter with a final magnificent gesture. The dying Clémenceau had expressly enjoined that he be given no state funeral. Scrupulously were his wishes observed. But six days after the sod was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Beaux Gestes | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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