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Word: challengee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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I am of the age which some people call ''elderly," and I put on glasses when I read TIME. Nonetheless I am no coward, and will not decline the challenge of Subscribess Catherine M. Whitsitt who writes to you (TIME, April 30) that she wants to give me...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

Of course, the Americana hunters who make their own gentility dubious by an inordinant desire to assert the vulgarity of mob pleasures, can and do challenge the intelligence of endurance contests. The rival show, put on by local patriots, which sent Dawes and Revere over their courses again, was much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HE WHO RUNS | 4/20/1928 | See Source »

Chairman of the Inter-American Commission of Women, to Study the Civil and Political Status of Women in the American Republics-no less-was what the governors of the Pan-American Union last week appointed Doris Stevens to be. Miss Stevens, a moving spirit within the National Woman's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Super-Suffrage | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

Francis John McConnell, Methodist Episcopal Bishop of Pittsburgh, stated a postulate that would surprise and shock all sturdy U. S. Fundamentalists: "I come from a Nation which is in some respects pagan. We subscribe to the doctrine of militarism and to the god of materialism, and we have given ourselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Again, Jerusalem. | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

Martin and Claire, faced by the challenge of Helen's kidnaping, sink their own love in a wild, valorous ride to rescue her. Helen's abductor is shot by Claire, who realizes in the heat of killing that she cannot take Martin from his wife of "wildrose beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Flood | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

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