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Word: befog (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Local issues befog national auguries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Primaries | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...right ear will net a hundred thousand dollars or a new gymnasium." Intellectual "safety" was defined: "He must be devoid of all purely rational principles and ideas of any sort . . . cannot be a Roman Catholic, a Quaker, a Holy Roller. . . . Above all, he should understand how to befog issues wherein ideas perhaps lurk dangerously by raising and keeping raised a perfect dust storm of issues that really do not matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harvard Irked | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...this particular work. The plot is very, very apparent. One reality guesses who the real villian is early in the story, and from the moment Olivia Revell descends her ladder into the world of Jeremy it is obvious that she is his forever. Mystery does not befog this highway, though the author try to build mazes of confusion in the good old romance manner...

Author: By D. S. Gibbs, | Title: Romance in Cocked Hats and Shirt Sleeves | 4/10/1926 | See Source »

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