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Word: bothered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speak French? Parlez vous Francais? No, don't clip the accompanying coupon, don't even bother to take another French course. Go, instead, to the Opera House and see the Guitrys. Then, if not before, you will realize that though it may be imperative to study Russian, Sanskrit, or Middle High German in order to make your way in the world, all an audience at such French plays needs is a program and two good eyes...

Author: By R. K. L., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/17/1927 | See Source »

...Clarence Dillon is noted for his swift cavalry-like flank attacks. Thus, it was said that not until two days before the purchase of these bonds did he bother his head about them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cheap Bonds | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...first time in several years I was able to satisfactorily keep in touch with current news while spending the summer in a very tiny village of the Italian Alps. Perhaps it would interest you to know how 1 provided for having TIME forwarded to me without having to bother you with my change of address. At the postoffice I had a copy of TIME weighed and bought the necessary folders on which I wrote my Italian address. These folders I left with the caretaker and each week he wrapped TIME in one and placed it again in the mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 22, 1926 | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

...could sell our product through your columns. Just because I own a Buick does not make me a better prospect for furniture. Neither does the fact that I went to college, while my wife did not, make her less interested in good furniture or me more so. So why bother to compile such figures...

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

Airplanes from McCook Field, Dayton, often fly over London, Ohio. The aviators, looking down at the spring countryside, watch the housewives of London spread their laundered sheets, smaller than a doll's handkerchiefs, to dry on the grass. The housewives rarely glance at the aviators. Why should they bother? Yet last week a housewife looked at her sheets and then at the sky and telephoned McCook Field. Then the voice of another matron harangued one of the ground pilots; others followed. Each had much the same complaint to make; the planes were, or rather they had-well, just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: In London | 6/21/1926 | See Source »

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