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Word: jetsam (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...line of jetsam along a beach shows how high the tide has been, so earnings of representative U. S. corporations measure the tide of U. S. prosperity. Last week many a corporation report showed 1928 figures well eclipsing statistics for 1927, testified eloquently to the soundness and growth of U. S. business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Earnings: Mar. 11, 1929 | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...Other inseparables: vinegar and oil, Damon and Pythias, warp and woof, odds and ends, pen and ink, man and wife, flotsam and jetsam, hook and crook, cup and saucer, might and main, sixes and sevens, beer and skittles, bread and butter, jot and tittle, flora and fauna, sweetness and light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Condiment Crises | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...Bottle Night" is an annual Yale clean-up demonstration. Dormitory inmates assemble at opened casements to hurl the season's collection of bottles, kickshaws, flotsam and jetsam out on the campus to be carted away the following morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Street-Sweeper Provokes Yale Men to Defiance of Law and Order in New Haven--Police Are Bearded on "Bottle Night" | 5/31/1928 | See Source »

...engagement to someone else. Demarest slinks back to his own deck writes Cynthia a series of decreasingly abject letters, none of which he sends, and before docking has let Mrs. Faubion enter his stateroom. Flood novel technique not only permits but requires an immense quantity of flotsam and jetsam. The writer may, and must, sub merge himself and watch, like a submarine artist, for a phantasma goria of mental and emotional proceedings in his characters, distort ed by their depth into shapes of beauty or ugliness, magnified or diminished with varying degrees of intelligibility. Thus, through William Demarest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Aug. 22, 1927 | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

Integration, the end toward which the economic world is drifting, is geographically desirable in the University. That Harvard should lose itself in the flotsam and jetsam of commercial Cambridge would be a misfortune, although not an educational calamity. Some time ago, a plan was formulated to provide for the growth of the University, a plan to preserve as a physical entity the strip of territory between the business school domain on the Charles River and the graduate dominions beyond Memorial Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INVASION AVERTED | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

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