Search Details

Word: daring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Where does he [Nominee Hoover] compare, if you will-and I dare challenge itin his Americanism with Alfred E. Smith? . . . When Mr. Hoover cast his first American vote, after his many years in the Orient, in Australia and other places, Alfred E. Smith was Governor of New York. From 1902 to 1912, Mr. Hoover's official address was London, England. I don't propose to criticize him for that, nor do I propose to forget Mr. Hoover's great humanitarian work during the War. But at the same time Governor Smith was engaged in humanitarian work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Walker | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...Intermittent Reader Fenlason write to the Virginia Dare Vineyards, Inc., Penn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 3, 1928 | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...maintained that modern exhaustive analysis has brought the game to the point at which one of his shrewdness can draw every game he plays, that theoretically to gain a victory one must dare an unsound combination. If, sufficiently intricate, its weakness fails to be detected, the game is won. Alternative is defeat. Thus less imaginative plodders can take advantage of more brilliant players' hazardous conceptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Chess | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

Prophetic U.S. citizens who peered futureward ten years, last week, could not discern a President who will dare publicly to drink their health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Honest President | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

Atheists are hampered in their activities by the fact that few public personages dare testify to disbelief in God. Sensation seekers crowd their ranks and an atheist fanatic is equalled in insane ferocity only by an inflamed revivalist. Yet leading atheists claim many famous figures as their allies. Such figures are: Sinclair Lewis, Clement Wood, Clarence Darrow, Freeman Hopwood, Theodore Dreiser, John Broadus Watson (behaviorism), E. Haldeman-Julius, A. G. Keller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Atheist's Oath | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | Next