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Word: dears (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Noah, at least the story goes, was caught by Mrs. Webster in a somewhat compromising situation with the housemaid. "Why Noah." she exclaimed. "I am surprised"; to which he replied "No dear, / am surprised. You are astonished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 30, 1931 | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

...Germany, on the other hand, exported $334,453,953 to Great Britain in 1929. of which $282,071,508 would not be Runcimanned; Russia exported $126,329,245 of which $33,507,294 would suffer. This Christmas for the first time "cheap" toys Made in Germany will be relatively dear in British toyshops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Empire Runcimanned | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

...Frogs (1928), Industrial Explorers (1928). A relentless researcher, he has fleshed out the earlier Roosevelt admirably but his penchant for politics has somewhat blurred the man in the White House and after. There are few scenes and little of the colorful personality that made T. R. so dear to the public. Through Biographer Pringle you hear Roosevelt more often than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: T. R. | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

...Voltaire, who once marvelled that priests could meet without laughing, must be greatly pleased by Mr. Wright's letter in Wednesday's CRIMSON: now even this last miracle has passed. But why should Mr. Wright resent the merriment of the clorgy at "this or that doctrine or sentiment dear to the Christian mind?" Surely everything has its humorous aspect, and if the theological structures of nineteen centuries can crumble at a smile, then the sooner we smile the better...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Merry Persons | 11/6/1931 | See Source »

...happen to be taking a course not unconnected with the history of Christian thought, largely attended by theological students, and conducted by one or two gentlemen whose technique as teachers seems to consist in part of making pleasantries at the expense of this or that doctrine or sentiment dear to the Christian mind Whenever one of these cracks occurs there is "universal laughter", as they say in Parliamentary reports, and nobody laughs louder, with a more insistent shrillness, than the reverend or almost reverend graduates mentioned above. Already they seem to belong to that up end coming cohort of holy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "The Fool Sayeth in His Heart..." | 11/4/1931 | See Source »

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