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Word: yes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jury which hopes either to convict or to clear Messrs. Fall and Doheny before Christmas is composed of typically average U. S. citizens-a steamfitter, an artist, a cigar store clerk, an expressman, etc. Most of them, when asked if they knew anything about the oil scandal, said, "Yes, we have noticed it in the headlines, but never looked into it deeply enough to form any definite opinions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Two Old Men | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...Chicago sprang up and spread out, so that when the World's Fair opened, with the world's biggest this and the world's finest that, it was a city, with plenty of black smoke and red light neighborhoods and corrupt politicians to prove it?" Yes, gracious yes, the reader remembers-if he is the right reader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Dec. 6, 1926 | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

Within the next three months it is possible that an English drawl may come rippling over the ocean with a "Hello--are you there?", to be answered by a crisp Vermont "Yes?" For George of Buckingham and Windsor, and Calvin of Washington and Plymouth are to inaugurate the transatlantic telephone service by what the Associated Press calls a "short conversation". And already the curious are wondering what will be the topic of conversation. Whatever it is it will prove food for columnists and Will Rogers; kings and presidents don't give each other a ring every...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OPERATOR, OPERATOR | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

...Yes, Professor Fisher believes that "Prohibition is here to stay." Significance. This is the ablest summary of the Dry side of the argument that has yet been published. Professor Fisher is adamant in his convictions, painstaking in his researches. He thoroughly believes that alcohol in his system would tarnish it, slow it up. bring on a more speedy death. He believes the same of alcohol in the nation's system. Even before Prohibition, he took only "occasional sips of wine" at his friends' tables. The Author. Tireless Mr. Fisher is not content to remain a professor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Drink | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

...Semitic press say this, and well might citizens of all creeds re-echo praise of a man whose knowledge of the law and understanding of the "rights of man" is unsurpassed. In 1916 President Wilson appointed him to the Supreme Court in the face of biting criticism. People said: "Yes, he is brilliant, but he is biased. We do not want prejudiced labor advocates in the Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUPREME COURT: Truth | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

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