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Word: whitely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House last week came a recommendation for yet another commission of investigation. This time President Hoover asked Congress in a special message to help solve the Prohibition Enforcement problem by appointing a joint committee to study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Jun. 17, 1929 | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

Fred B. Smith of White Plains. N. Y.. layman, chairman of the National Citizens' Committee of 1,000 for Law Enforcement, leader in lay religious organizations both national and international, was unanimously elected Moderator by the Congregationalists. Some time ago Moderator Smith retired from gainful occupation with Johns-Manville Corp., famed asbestos makers, to combat Hell's fire through church work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In Union . . . | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...Story. In 1619 a Dutch ship named the Full Moon entered Saldanha Bay, Africa, for water. The old King of the Herreros went to the shore, though he was sick. To the King the Captain offered white man's medicine. All must drink. The King and his bodyguard agreed. Faithfully they drank the prescribed drink. It came in cases labeled HOLLAND GIN. After the warriors were quite senseless, 16 girls and four boys were kidnapped, to be sold as the first slaves at Jamestown, Va. Next morning the Dutchmen were far out and the Herreros could not chase them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Trader Dean | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

Nancy had one defense. Other disillusioned Fasseferns had flung themselves over the Rossorty cliffs into the boiling sea-Nancy herself remembered the white-haired master in scarlet hunting-coat madly spurring his ash-white horse over the cliff. So Nancy spurred herself and jumped, knowing as she did so that no groom's child could be so brave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blaze of Beauty | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...Memorial Hall Mr. Johnson, G, S Harvard 6 Mr. Leighton, B, E Harvard 2 Mr. Parsons, BB, W Harvard 6 Mr. Ratzlaff, L, U New Lect. Hall Mr. Shoemaker, A, P New Lect. Hall Mr. Stratton, Q, Z New Lect. Hall Mr. Taylor, D, F New Lect. Hall Mr. White, M, X New Lect. Hall Mr. Winslow, B. N New Lect. Hall Economics 4b Atamian-Koetzle Geol Lect. Rm. Kohn-Youngman Pierce 110 English 39 Harvard 5 English 76 Sever 35 Fine Arts 1a New Fogg Lect. Rm. German 8 Sever 29 German 9 Sever 18 German 24 Sever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Final Examinations for Today and Tomorrow | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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