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Word: choicest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Celebrities follow bright rainbows to pots of shining gold. The U. S. pot is most golden. Therefore choicest celebrities from overseas swarm into it, simmer, exude the essences of genius. Last week the pot seemed brimming full. Choice dumplings were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Rainbow Folk | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...Boyle's two choicest Bulls, both delivered before the Irish Parliament, were: 1) 'All along the untrodden pathway of the future I can see the footprints of an unseen hand'; and 2) 'Why should we beggar ourselves to benefit posterity? What has posterity ever done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bulls | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

...better keep it as it is, thin and full of the choicest meat. We can get all the bulk we want elsewhere. While I can't say that TIME is perfect, why should I expect it to be made to suit my personal tastes? You strike a good average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 1, 1926 | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...this street, an age old air of dignity and of sociability; here was a carven stone, fraught with history; there a quickly opened door let out a stream of light and gallant voices. All around me--I knew and I could feel it in the air--flowed the choicest hours of college. Here were the dormitories and club-houses, here were the college papers and magazines, here were the clubs of all kinds, and some of the athletic buildings. Such a mixture of work and fun I sensed that the breeze felt crisp and joyful with youth. This...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOW MORE FRESHMEN DECIDE TO RENOUNCE PRECONCEIVED IDEAS OF LIFE AT HARVARD | 11/17/1925 | See Source »

Vice Chancellor Joseph Wells of Oxford University put polishing touches to an address in choicest Latin, donned historic regalia, had the students summoned before him and convoked them for the term with the following among other words (translated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advice | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

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