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Word: cryptically (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Joseph Medill Patterson and Robert Rutherford McCormick turned to Lincoln, not to Barnum. Curious crowds stood in front of the new News building last week, eyeing a procession of laborers, beggars, children, flappers, photographers marching in light relief across the building's grey-green granite facade over the tabloidally cryptic excerpt: "He made so manv of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: So Many of Them | 4/21/1930 | See Source »

Another advt. told in quaint and cryptic English of silk stockings "which will not entangle your dress nor will they cause it to wear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Return to Normal | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

First article was headed "Tsaa-a, Tsaa-a, Tsaa-a," a phrase cryptic until from subhead and text the reader learned that "Tsaa-a" is the cry of the buyer of pigs in the great basal U. S. industry of Packing, which the article expounded, haunch, paunch and squeal, with impressionistic photographs of the Chicago stockyards in action by able staff photographer Margaret Bourke-White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fortune | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

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