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Word: desiree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The after math of the World War has left the United States with certain people, whom consider courage now no longer necessary even to the military character, that timid disposition, and which are the natural defense of weakness should be the ruling power of government in the United States. They...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/12/1927 | See Source »

Few would deny that an adequate education can be acquired outside a classroom. But it is only the very exceptional student who has the initiative or the vision to be able to do so. Mere hard work and a desire to succeed do not uniformly bring results. Leaving the delights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARD KNOCKS VS. HISTORY | 1/11/1927 | See Source »

Character. "We are placing a great deal of emphasis on prosperity. Our people ought to desire to be prosperous, but it ought not to be their main desire. There are other things that they ought to want more. Prosperity is not a cause; it is a result It is all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Moral Preceptor | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

Mr. Root, aged 81, spoke to rebuke the U. S. for deserting the League of Nations. Said he: "We have allowed insensate prejudice, camouflaged by futile phrases, to appear, but falsely appear, to represent the true heart of the American people, with all its idealism, with its breadth of human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wilson | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

From one source we hear that Diaz, head of the constitutional party, is the servile puppet of United States business interests. From another, he is the white hope of law and order. So also, Sacasa, liberal leader, is said to represent "the pee-pul" of Nicaragua in their fight against...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEXT UNPLEASANTNESS | 1/8/1927 | See Source »

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