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Word: adds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college humor fashion, and in either event TIME might keep itself better informed. In order to forestall any attempted wisecracks about my religious beliefs, please note that I believe in God, and that my faith is neither helped nor hurt by TIME's jackassery. And I may add that my authority for Ingersoll's agnosticism-not atheism- is, in addition to the evidence of his lectures, the statement of his wife, who probably knew more about his opinions and beliefs than does even the infallible vaudeville artist who edits the literary section of TIME. Easily the most unsatisfactory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 11, 1927 | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

...foursquare, sunk in a large family. A doting father of six, a pompous cashier in his bank, a champion bowler, he is admirable in all things, full of little unpricked vanities, and simply worshipful in an Olympian set of whiskers that obscure almost a half of his necktie but add immeasurably to his dignity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Jul. 11, 1927 | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

...replied that he had read TIME and did read it when he happened to have a copy. Then quite modestly I asked him if he hadn't observed that TIME readers are, as a class, more intelligent than the readers of the general class. He hastened to add that he, of course, had always intended to read TIME regularly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 4, 1927 | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

Their offer to the B. of L. E. was to take over the management of eleven banks and seven investment companies which the Brotherhood owns. The value of these institutions totals $89,000,000. To this the Mittens proposed to add a "substantial amount of new capital" when they assumed management...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Mittens Withdrawn | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

...well to add that the separation can never, ought never, to be complete, that, moreover, private institutions in certain circumstances will be motivated much as the run of public ones are and that old and established state universities may serve speculative ends more fully than many a privately endowed one. It is certain, however, that all needs will be served; and that it is no a bad thing to see that there are places where each and everyone can best be served...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ART FOR ALL | 6/14/1927 | See Source »

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