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Word: cite (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...association, as a Commissioner of the State of New York, with the development of the Saratoga Spa. I cite your statement: "He [Peabody] formed a private corporation, Saratoga Waters Corp., leased at nominal fee the right to bottle the waters. . . . The State purchased the Peabody lease for more than $350,000." There is absolutely not a word of truth in this nor any basis to be found in any way for the scandalous attack upon my character which this statement makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 7, 1933 | 8/7/1933 | See Source »

...them and may voice their opinions. Such a policy would arouse interest and invigorate the whole organization. In the second place, the sphere of activity of the Council should be widened, and more important, the many issues directly affecting the student body should be carefully taken up. To cite pertinent examples: The recent abolition of the position of Adviser in Religion should certainly have been considered; assistance and advice should have been given publicly in deciding on the policy of distributing Freshmen in the Houses; and finally, the Council ought definitely to take a stand on what it considers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "NOT TO EAT, NOT FOR LOVE. . ." | 5/17/1933 | See Source »

...doomed and must go. It is impossible to maintain one's intellectual integrity while reading only one side of a question, and most economists, sociologists, and historians represent only one side of the problems which they treat. The handling of the history of the American Civil War, to cite one instance, has till only very recently been replete with prejudice and bias, fictions and mistakes, merely because most of the men who dealt with the subject were Northerners, incapable of analyzing events and trends truthfully. Not even Hans Sachs would have to point the moral...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AREOPAGITICA | 3/31/1933 | See Source »

...know that I ever before told about this happening but I tell it now simply to illustrate the gross inaccuracy of the statement made by Senator Blaine and to cite one example of perhaps many, where members of Congress take advantage of the immunity given them, to make false and reckless charges, either for the purpose of injuring their enemies or to glorify themselves -and perhaps as a cheap means to gain notoriety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 31, 1932 | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

...Whiz Bang, magazine of washroom humor. Publisher Wilford H. ("Captain Billy") Fawcett used to refer often to "the henna-haired heckler," meaning his wife. Antoinette Fisher Fawcett. Of late such references have been absent. Publisher Fawcett last month got a divorce for infidelity "on occasions too numerous to separately cite." Last week the "heckler"?who prefers to call herself "the red headed dynamo" or "Animated Annette" found a new way to heckle her ex-spouse. With her first alimony checks she bought a neighboring bawdy joke-book called the Calgary Eye Opener, prepared to compete with Captain Billy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: No Tabloid | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

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