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Word: worked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Telephone & Telegraph Co. in charge of public relations, he plays a vigorous game of golf, sneaks off from his Long Island estate to New Hampshire or elsewhere to fish at the slightest provocation. For 13 years he was editor of his father's World's Work. From Canada. Regretfully last week President Hoover accepted the resignation of William Phillips, first U. S. Minister to Canada. Minister Phillips' excuse was better than most: to bring up his children in the U. S. Twenty-six years in foreign service had made him one of the State Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Johnson, Page, Phillips | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...linemen there are only about two like Ticknor and Perry whose work in the Stadium has stamped them as distinctly better than their rivals. The others named, and a good many unnamed, performed well and the choice is really a toss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

...completion. In December, 1927, an "Alumnus Aquaticus" placed $100,000 in trust for a "swimmery" primarily for Harvard undergraduates. No less than two months later one "Anonymous Aquaticus" put the sum of $250,000 in trust for Harvard for an undergraduate swimming pool. The conditions were that work on this plant should start within one year of February 18, 1928, and be finished within two years of that date. The plot was thickening; Mr. Bingham could not well afford to loose such generous gifts to the University and immediately asked the original "anonymous alumnus" for permission to finish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

Professor Sayre has had a distinguished career as a teacher and lecturer, and is the author of several volumes on international law. In 1924 he was created Phya Kalyan Maltri by the King of Slam, in recognition of his distinguished work in the field of international...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sayre to Speak | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

...each case there has been an explanation that prevents destruction of the aforementioned theory. "Rio Rita" is frankly a photograph of a famous Ziegfeld success and it has proved popular for the reason that it provides at small cost an opportunity for the general populace to see the work of a nationally publicized showman. "The Hollywood Revue" could hardly fail since almost every star of one of the largest film firms makes a sort of personal appearance in it, and "The Cocoanuts" has been liked where the Marx Brothers are known and the defects of production are therefore generously overlooked...

Author: By Richard WATTS Jr., | Title: Talkies Even More Uniform Than Silent Productions--Backstage, College Lead | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

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