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Word: curly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When you sight the fox say, "Yonder he goes." Say it quietly and "make sure first that it is a fox and not a cat or a cur dog. Don't say 'There it goes.' Do not get excited. Remember that foxes have been viewed and hallooed away for centuries. It is nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Foxcatcher Don'ts | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Sirs: By applying such a word as "cowardly" to the expression of an opinion by Mr. Shaw you merely make yourselves and your publication ridiculous and affect him no more than a cur in the gutter snapping at a passing mastiff. I have long since ceased to buy your so-called "magazine," but from the copies I see now and then in libraries and elsewhere I gather that a cheaply-sensational attitude is its present pose. I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 1, 1929 | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

Professor Wilson calculated, the cur rent of electricity amounted to 20 coulombs, that is, 20 amperes per second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nobel Prizes | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

...methods whereby an iceberg is slowly disintegrated and destroyed by nature are varied. The pounding of the heavy seas, rain, and the warm Gulf Stream which meets the Labrador cur- rent on the Banks, all contribute to the gradual erosion of the huge ice mountains. Warm heavy fogs rising from the mixture of warm and cold water are a big factor in the slow decay of the bergs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Law Student Tells of Experiences With Icebergs | 10/11/1927 | See Source »

...used to be a pleasure to put TIME into the hands of the children in my cur rent "censor" events and cut class ; out but an now item I every have now to and then, and I am not at all sure that I want to continue taking the trouble of doing course, this. One cancellation. alternative would be, of I think that a simpler and much better solution would be, however, for you to of adopt this anything rule : which, "TIME while will it print may no be 'right' details or 'moral' in some other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 22, 1927 | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

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