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Word: abodeely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since his back had felt no load, Virtue still in him abode; So he swiftly made his own Those last spoils we had not won.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Loud Kipling | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

Islam. Allah, like his new servants, was nomadic and whimsical. Often as not He left Mohammed in the lurch, at first. The indignant Koreish drove the Moslems out of Mecca into the hills one winter. But soon Allah was well-behaved and sharp-eared again. He revealed a splendid opening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Fiction | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

As every one knows, the White House, erected in 1799, had a primitive icebox of shaggy lumber. The ice was cut from the Potomac River and stored in a deep cellar adjoining the Presidential abode. Ceremonious John Adams always needed a big supply; frugal Thomas Jefferson used little.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Icebox, No Ice | 8/30/1926 | See Source »

A Korean tribunal sentenced Missionary C. A. Haysmeir to three years in jail because he had painted "Thief" on the cheeks of a little native boy who had sinned. The painting was done with silver nitrate, permanent. All good Seventh Day Adventists deplored the work of their missionary, dismissed him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Seventh Day Adventists | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

Last week William Eleazar Barton, hoary custodian of Lincolnia, proclaimed that Father Cyr, who his Eminence declared celebrated the masses at Lincoln's stepmother's, had not yet been ordained when Lincoln left his father's home, that Sarah Bush Lincoln was not Catholic by birth and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mistake | 7/19/1926 | See Source »

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