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Word: discussed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This issue (prohibition) will be in the minds and upon the lips of the voters from the day the conventions adjourn until the day the polls close. Everybody, except the deaf and dumb and the candidates, will discuss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 19, 1927 | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

Chief Justice William Howard Taft of the U. S. Supreme Court to discuss the Philippines and, doubtless, the impending appointment of a new Governor-General. As he put on his coat and started to leave the White House, Judge Taft's constitutional smile took on a baffled expression. He walked off but soon returned, heaving with discomfort. By mistake, he had been helped into the coat of Senator Robert Beecher Howell of Nebraska. Changing coats, Judge Taft chuckled something about reducing, walked off smiling broadly once more. Big but not bulky, Senator Howell was closeted, all unknowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Dec. 12, 1927 | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

After dinner, movies are announced to the mild disgust of Miss Perkins and Mr. Sutherland. Quietly they slip on deck and then descend a companionway to explore the ship. They come to the engine room. They discuss the engine. The engine replies by starting to turn over. Miss Perkins and Mr. Sutherland, rightly assuming that the yacht is in motion, are agitated, try to make their way back to their host, find that they are locked below deck. A pretty kettle of fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Vanguard | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...these latter periods of darkness, when the Church, institutionally speaking at least, lay prostrate under the heel of a French king, that Professor Merriman will discuss when he speaks at 11 o'clock in Emerson D this morning on the Babylonish Captivity of the Papacy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/1/1927 | See Source »

Before long, Mrs. Elliot became an invalid. She would call Emily into her room and the two of them would discuss Mrs. Fletcher. Emily was too weak to oppose her mother's economies that took, among other things, the form of selling the furniture and buying clothes at second-hand sales. Mrs. Elliot would push herself up in bed and stare at the pale, frightened child. "She clutched her granddaughter's wrist and shook her arm 'Don't you understand? You must resist her. . . . Why, if I were your age, knowing her as I do, knowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Avarice House | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

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