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Word: bottomless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...splendid Treasury." he said, to remind people why the Budget Bureau was established, "is not a bottomless, automatically replenishing fountain of fiscal supply, and its outflow must be eternally watched and carefully and wisely directed into proper channels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Eighth Budget | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...four years he wandered through southern France, now poetizing for his connoisseur-host, Charles of Orleans, in the chateau at Blois, now sleeping in haystacks, once sentenced to death at Orleans. Always he pursued women, stole at a whim, strained at a bottomless tankard. And always he was freed from the dungeons (often by the services of the influential priest whom he called "my more than father"). Back in Paris, at the age of 31, he faced the gibbet of Montfaucon for a second time, was again liberated, sentenced to ten years' exile. With a farewell to his impoverished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Many a Mugful | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

French Republic. The fluid, radical republicanisms of the French Parliament are now harmonized and harnessed by the "Sacred Union Cabinet" of Premier Raymond Poincare. Because he averted a national panic in 1926 by rescuing the franc from what seemed a bottomless decline, the Chamber now allows him the authority of an absolute dictator over French finance. His reactionary ideas of foreign policy are not, however, stomached by the Chamber, which gives loose rein to that great, constructive pacifist, Foreign Minister Aristide Eriand. The Senate is always ready to follow M. Poincare's conservative financial policies and ever suspicious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Who Rules the World? | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

...first things Christ will do upon his return will be to put Satan literally into the bottomless pit, and then do away with all sickness, all airplanes and all wars. For those Christians who are still alive there will be no death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Prophecy | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

...Black Hills lies Custer Park, South Dakota's 125,000-acre forest reserve. Famed for its elk, buffalo, trout, natural caves, bottomless lake, needle-like rock-for-mation, Custer Park offered high altitudes and cool breezes to the presidential tourist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Custer Park | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

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