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Word: wakes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inrush of foreign cars was anticipated by the U. S. motor industry in the wake of such a tariff change, which, many thought, would produce a favorable psychological effect abroad, might even relax tariff barriers now raised against U. S. motor exports. But what many an independent motorman feared was that big U. S. concerns-Ford and General Motors -already equipped with factories abroad, would produce cars by cheap labor for shipment back to the U. S. duty free to undersell the U. S. market. Henry Ford's fabrication of tractors in Ireland with the privilege of bringing them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Gestures | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...Cincinnati, one Mrs. Bertha Simpson, in order not to wake her husband one stormy night last week, waited for a thunder clap to drown the noise of the revolver with which she shot herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

Fred Stanley Grant Jr. '29, of Wake-field, Massachusetts has been picked to deliver the Tree Oration on Class Day, it was announced yesterday. At the same time it was given out that the hymn written by Edward Fuller Fitzhugh, Jr. '29, of Boise, Idaho, had been selected for the Baccalaureate Hymn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grant to Deliver Tree Oration | 6/6/1929 | See Source »

...demagoguery. To say that class leadership is wrong is nonsense. Already our social system is a resultant of classes clashing as classes. Banking as a class, labor as a class, politicians as a class, lawyers as a class, all are bent on control. Why not make an attempt to wake up the inter and irresponsible class of college men, try to make them a bit self-conscious, proud of what differentiates them from the crowd, proud to make use of than power, the power of breeding, brains, training, opportunities. Professor Rogers, cited by Associated Press...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rogers Reiterates | 6/6/1929 | See Source »

...Chicago, Mrs. Helen Johnson sued her Scotch husband, Arthur, for divorce. Claimed she: He would not let her use a vacuum cleaner lest it wear out the rugs; he would wake before the alarm clock's orison to save the spring; on July 4, he bought the children no firecrackers but ran about the house shouting "BOOM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 3, 1929 | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

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