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Word: went (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...close friend of Tyrus Cobb and before the latter quit baseball often went to games. He and his wife entertain little, then usually for the younger set in Washington-his daughter is at Bryn Mawr. He is well liked in the Senate, is labeled a "fair" Senator, honest, conscientious, colorless. Every year he makes a few carefully prepared speeches, reads them in a conversational tone without gestures and carefully sends copies to the press gallery for distribution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...said President Hoover, "gave my views [at the opening of the current special session of congress]. . . . I then pressed . . . the importance of maintaining the flexible tariff." The Voice went on to say that Flexible Tariff Ridge (see map, TIME, Sept. 30) must by all valor be held for the Republic. To hold it would not make the President a despot. To lose it would surrender the whole tariff into the hands of delay, mischance, selfish bickering. The tariff was a human institution, inevitably imperfect. Let the President correct it (through the present clause allowing him to raise or lower duties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Camp Trouble | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...whose prowess the Crimson football destinies now depend, 36 went to private prep schools, eight to high schools, and one is a transfer student from another university. Milton leads the van with a total of eleven representatives, Exeter is second with seven, Groton third with three, while Andover and Worcester Academy each supplies two. Taft, St. Paul's, St. Mark's Noble and Greenough, Loomis, Berkshire, Chestnut Hill Academy, New Prop, Roxbury, St. George's and Middlesex have one apiece...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/4/1929 | See Source »

After graduation from Harvard, Mr. Francis was for several years assistant to the Curator of the Print Department in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He then went to Cleveland, where he has held, until recently, the position of Curator of Prints and Drawings in the Museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: W. H. SIPLE IS RESIGNING FROM MUSEUM POSITION | 10/2/1929 | See Source »

Albert of Belgium went to Italy. Purpose: to visit Vittorio-Emanuele and Queen Elena. Rumored: that Princess Marie-Jose of Belgium (third child) and Crown Prince Umberto of Italy (just turned 25) are to be married; that Pius XI will perform the ceremony; that the couple will live in a royal palace at Florence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

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