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Word: accountability (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interest of such devoted disciples of semantics as Stuart Chase and myself, don't you feel obliged to render an account of the number of definitions you receive, as well as a few random samplings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 23, 1938 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...surplus remaining in a House committee bank account at the end of the year must be turned over to the University, in accordance with a new ruling which will take effect this June, it was reliably reported last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOUSES MUST GIVE ALL PROFITS TO THE BURSAR | 5/20/1938 | See Source »

Since reading your account of the recent D. A. R. Continental Congress [TIME, May 2], I am wondering why I have ever considered TIME fair and reliable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 16, 1938 | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

This vast collection, which will be on exhibit in Widener Library next week, includes several of Melville's travel journals, among which are the account of a voyage from New York to London in 1849, a trip "up the Straits" in 1856, and a voyage on board the ship 'Meteor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Valuable Collection of Melville Works Donated University by Relative | 5/13/1938 | See Source »

...history, says Author Barnard, had a man been assaulted in the press so fiercely and irrationally. The vituperation went on for months, increasingly hysterical, until Altgeld was all but broken by it. The usual report has been that Altgeld never recovered from this verbal bombardment. Barnard's account, however, is that after being dazed and bewildered, the governor suddenly began to fight with the savagery of a man who has nothing more to lose. When Cleveland sent Federal troops to Chicago during the Pullman strike of 1894, going over Altgeld's head, the governor had taken more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rebel | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

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