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Word: butting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Not that it matters very much, but Secretary of War Hurley is not a Roman Catholic. If he were, what a blow to Col. Bill Donovan, Mr. Hoover's ex-friend, who had to be shelved because he confessed that faith. It may be that the Catholics claim Pat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

The House of Representatives undoubtedly gets through its business with commendable speed, although often we come to believe that it is accomplished through log rolling and the docile follow-the-leader voting of men who respect the machine which elected them. In the Senate again, business is undoubtedly oftentimes outrageously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

"At the Hoover conference I promised to do my share by keeping the country in good humor until the big corporations buy crutches for the crippled stocks. Every day beginning Monday I promise you one good laugh "Yours until my yacht catches on fire." Excerpts from his first syndicated crack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Newscracker | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

The oldest U. S. college debating organization is Princeton's American Whig Society. Established in 1769, its early membership was composed of hot-headed Colonials who congregated on the top floor of Nassau Hall, fomenting juvenile sedition. Until the last decade, Whig and its rival, the Cliosophic Society, one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Whig's Wilson | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

Rogue & Gull. With a tale of having flown for the British Royal Flying Corps in Italy and of being a Carter of Cartersville, Ky., one Robert A. Carter, 32, intriguing fictionist, became managing editor of John B. Kelly's air-fiction magazine Wings. He "wrote" good stories which Mr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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