Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miss Ivy Russell, 25, maidservant of Croydon: the women's weight-lifting championship of England, for which she had challenged one Tillie Tinmouth of Sunderland; by hoisting a 300-lb. bar over her head; at Croydon. Champion Russell's comment: "I weigh only nine stone [126 lb.]. ... I do not know when I discovered that I was so strong...
...Spring," we wish to point out, is a euphemism. It is not our intention to lean on authority, but Mr. Samuel Clemens was not the first to comment on the weather of Boston and its on-virons. Nor, indeed, was he the last; we, in our time have been moved to expressions of opinions which your estimable sheet would certainly not be safe in printing. If the vernal urge, whatever that is, is at any moment roused, it is in the next moment squelched by one of those inimitable gusts of Boston atmosphere. How anyone can really get spring fever...
...last week Le Temps, leading Paris daily, devoted two columns of its special financial supplement to bullish comment on the U. S. Excerpts...
...practical mind will comment that there is no reason why an Arabic numeral needs to be graceful or good looking. There is no reason why a young female needs to be graceful or good looking?but we like them that...
...recall the editor's comment on a letter about Doyle and Lodge to the effect that every TIME reader should know that Doyle is dead and Lodge alive (TIME, Jan. 18). Not only are many of your readers acquainted with this fact but many of them also know that Doyle and not Poe wrote The Leather Funnel (TIME, Jan. 25, footnote on p. 13). In fact it was Doyle's favorite among his own short stories...