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Word: asses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ass't Vice President The Bank of United States New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 20, 1929 | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...York State, and a different scene. I was with Major General Henry C. Corbin on the Benguet road going from Baguio to Manila in an army (Doherty) wagon. At noon we outspanned for luncheon. Smoking in the shade after chicken and ham and iced wine, we descried an ass coming up the steep ascent with a dusty figure of a man plodding beside the beast. "Those squaw men disgrace America in the Philippines," said the General. "Hundreds of 'em swinging 'round and living off native women. No American soldiers should be discharged until they have returned home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 20, 1929 | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

National Editorial Ass'n Northfield, Minn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mister's Cuffs | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...parts of northern Africa. It is picked for Papermaker-Publisher Harrison by a small army of Arabs. It is expensive, for the boiling down of the pulp diminishes its bulk by 50%. With the vigor of a true Yorkshireman, Mr. Harrison last week took pains to denounce as an ass an imaginative U. S. reporter who wrote how esparto grass had to be plucked by sweating Negroes, one blade at a time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Britannia | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...what an ass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Botanist into President | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

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