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Word: casuals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entire article aptly illustrates the futility of writing from casual impressions. We fear that the author failed not only to get around to the right places but that he failed to get around with the right people. The article does no good and had much better never have been written. --Daily Illini

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 1/16/1929 | See Source »

...Behn's great design thus became obvious to the most casual observer. I. T. & T. cables stretch to the west coast of South America. Here they connect with the trans-Andean cable and telephone lines. And these lines in turn connect with the domestic telephone systems of Chile, Uruguay and now, Argentina. Thus a fast message may be relayed from New York to a house in the suburbs of Montevideo without once leaving I. T. & T. wires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Great Behn Design | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

Most of the Dramatic Club plays of recent years have been successes before they started. Everyone has known about them. There has been a tying and untying of pretty packages up and down until the casual stroller in the street kicks up at every step tinsel and tissue paper, all with that enticing label: "Not To Be Opened Until Just Before Christmas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MERRY CHRISTMAS | 12/12/1928 | See Source »

...fear is the impression your brutally frank description might make on your casual reader, who cannot realize the enormous significance of a personal experience like Beers' being turned to account for the benefit of mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 10, 1928 | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...said, last month, what a shame it was that Mr. Houghton had resigned as Ambassador (TIME, Oct. 8) and sailed for New York, to stand for one of the Senatorial seats from that state as a Republican. When the Republican candidate was elected President of the U. S., casual Britons supposed that Mr. Houghton must have been elected too, and that they had seen the diplomatic last of him. But instead he was defeated, and so he was back in London last week as Ambassador-and so a banquet really had to be arranged. By some Briton's happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Two Powers: Two Men | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

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