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Word: answering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...supposed to answer question No. 71 Do we have to read the ads, too, to qualify as a cover-to-cover reader ? I read those that look interesting to me, but I recognize some of them right away as not meant particularly for a housewife. Can I still be called a cover-to-cover reader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dutch | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

Last week Senator William E. Borah, mighty Republican from Idaho, was quick to answer them, to announce that he would fight to oust them. He, no mean constitutional lawyer, believed the Senate has the right to oust Messrs. Smith and Vare, a right which he likened to the right of self-preservation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Self-Preservation | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

...barbarous and un-American answer of the Anti-Saloon League is that it makes little difference how many times a man who violates the national prohibition law is put in jeopardy for one and the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUPREME COURT: Two Decisions | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

...answer to your letter, I wish to be absolutely frank. While the Student Council regrets the bad manners of the Lampoon editorial; and while the undergraduate body as a whole would never have expressed its feelings in this way, it is only fair to say that there has been a recognizable element of bad feeling in our football relations for some time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Student Council Takes Hand in Princeton Controversy | 11/13/1926 | See Source »

...courthouse they looked upon the wills of George and Martha Washington, read some reports of an early Virginia Grand Jury. The clerk of the court told them that George Washington had once been fined for "profane swearing." Mrs. Coolidge asked: "What was profane swearing'?" The clerk could not answer. So they climbed in their car again and proceeded to Oak Hill, the 2,000-acre estate of President Monroe. Here the President and Mrs. Coolidge saw dinosaur footprints in the stone flooring of the breakfast room, had tea. A detour on the return to the White House added pleasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Nov. 8, 1926 | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

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