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Word: useful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Darden to whom you refer and I am enclosing for your information a copy of an order from the District Court of Tarrant County, Texas, issued in 1924 giving me the right to continue the use of my name for business purposes, although married to a man of another name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...provision has been made for radio broadcasting but I suppose that the instrument is open to this use, although I have no definite information as to the requirements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...that TIME, always timely, was not aware of a collection of amusing little verses now being widely circulated under the title Mother Goose Censored? It seems to me that you might have made use of it in your article "Goose Dispute," in the Dec. 9 issue. The editor of the poems leaves a blank wherever the absence of an innocent word might imply the presence of a naughtier one. The result should be a good lesson to some of our scurrilousminded censors. Here is a mild example: Doctor Foster went to Gloucester In a shower of rain; He stepped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...agricultural committee declared: "The Chamber advocates cooperative marketing . . . only in so far as they are not discriminatory against other private enterprise. ... It is of vital importance to the preservation of private capital investments in storage and other physical marketing facilities that the duplication of such facilities by use of federal loans be not allowed

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Barnes v. Legge? | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...Nicaragua last year?by knocking together a make-believe chimney out of packing boxes, filling the "hearth" with tinsel for fire, and hanging up their biggest socks to be stuffed with joke presents. But hardboiled fighting men on the outer marches of the U. S. Empire have little use for hymns of peace. More likely are they to drown out anything suggestive of home or homesickness with their corps anthem, "From the Halls of Montezuma," a song of many unprintable versions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Montezuma, Tripoli & Beyond | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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