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Word: youre (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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To the question, "Don't you know that lightning never strikes twice in the same place?" a typical, tattered, cheerful Neapolitan will reply, "Maybe in your country, Signore (shrug), that is so."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Naples' Numbers | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Ladies who in the past have presided over brilliant salons are Mme. du Barry, Mme. de Staël and the author of this book. The salon was fast becoming a lost art when Mrs. Draper staged her revival, substituted garish Bohemian cushions for frail gilt chairs, substituted brusque moderns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Revival | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Last week the question suddenly loomed: Will Commander Evangeline leave the Army? She sailed last week for the U. S. She carried with her the rancor of her brother, whom she had not once seen during the fight about his office, and whose wife had written to her: "For the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Battle of the Booths | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

One C. D. Collins, 2OI½ Ibs., British, clumsy, looked down at one of his large feet last week and perceived that he had stove it right through the racing shell in which he and seven other Cambridge undergraduates were preparing to row, next week, against Oxford. He, the stroke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Shell | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

The testimonial dates back to advertising's patent medicine era. Familiar in the old days was the tale in which an ailing person, having "taken two bottles of your marvelous remedy," was quickly restored to blooming health. Later, as the conscience of advertisers and the standards of publishers improved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bad Names | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

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