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Word: bugaboos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...overture to January's five power naval conference, the British Foreign Office issued a "White Paper" last week.* Bearing the signature of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Arthur Henderson, it was strongly reminiscent of the quixotic reasoning of James Ramsay MacDonald in his more elfin moments. Discussing that bugaboo of Anglo-U. S. naval agreement, the question of Freedom of the Seas and rights of neutrals in wartime, the paper read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: White Paper | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...total decrease of twenty-two percent, almost twice that of Yale, may be found one testimonial for sanely-controlled participation in athletics. The bugaboo of the dark ages, the athlete's heart, is fast becoming an asset rather than the serious liability it was once regarded. It would be interesting to read the figures of longevity compiled by the insurance companies twenty five years from now to note what effect the stringent medical examinations, the necessary stimulus to studies, and the emphasis of the Varsity Club dietician would have on the future life of the Harvard sportsman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE SCORE YEARS AND TEN | 12/18/1929 | See Source »

...jubilant were the members of the Chamber of Deputies at their final disposal of the U. S. debt bugaboo that a short time afterward when the government asked for ratification of the Franco-British debt settlement (TIME, May 10. 1926), it was voted through in a few seconds by a mere show of hands. Comparatively small, as such gargantuan matters go, the British Settlement pledges France to pay ?653,727,900 over 67 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Debt Wrangle | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...than before Prohibition. He cited Yale and Stanford. . . . The News and the Stanford Daily refused to accept the intended compliment. ... I do not know about New Haven but with regard to drinking in the colleges throughout the country I am afraid you are right. ...* You have finished with that bugaboo of conventional respectability which is today hobbling hypocritical legislators who vote 'dry' and live 'wet.' This to you is nauseating. This gives me the courage to believe that the present disastrous and demoralizing conditions cannot last into the period when some of you are representing your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gauss v. Fosdick | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

Annexation. The bugaboo of Annexation has lost its political potency in Canada and in its place has been raised a cry against the "Americanization" of the Dominion. ''Americanization" runs from U. S. bathtubs to U. S. comic strips, each item of which is at one time or another anathematized in the Canadian press, pulpit and political forum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Neighbors | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

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