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Word: doesn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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When a dog's nose isn't cold, when a child doesn't like jam, one knows that something has gone wrong in the constituted arrangements of nature. Now and then, however, one observes a dog or a child without detecting anything peculiar in his behavior, yet one feels sure that, if he is not ill, there is at least something strange the matter with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ten Days | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

...course I didn't say that business is worse either," he went on. "Business is good. But that doesn't matter much. And I didn't say I started out by selling shoe laces, but I don't mind that. I don't mind anything in a spirit of fun. I never sold a shoe lace, but I wouldn't be ashamed of it if I had. I woundn't care if you said I got my start driving a garbage truck. That's just as honest a way to earn money as selling bonds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Max Keezer, Optimist, Demands Retraction--Far From Dissatisfied With Life While Business Is Booming | 12/18/1924 | See Source »

...question was argued on both sides for several minutes when someone with a more practical and clearsighted vision of affairs arose and stated: "It doesn't matter anyway because the only reason people take Military Science here is because it is a snap course, and the only thing they care about getting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATING COUNCIL EXCUSES MIL. SCI. AS A SNAP COURSE | 11/26/1924 | See Source »

...night and try it.' " Are there any hazards ?' " 'Yes, there's a dark corner on the sixth and two broken bulbs on the eleventh. Then there's a short circuit on the fourteenth green that gives a player a lot of trouble if he doesn't carry matches.' " 'Who's the club champion now ?' " 'Elmer Griggs. He plays a wonderful game of night golf. Never losee a ball!' "'What makes him so good?' " 'He used to be night watchman in a mothball factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Night | 11/10/1924 | See Source »

...Hour upon hour Mr. Davis has hurled his denunciations against the Coolidge administration, and patiently his hearers have waited for his constructive program. But when it came, it was so disproportionately underemphasized that many have left his meetings quite bewildered. Though in no doubt whatever of what Mr. Davis doesn't stand for, they are much perplexed to discover what he does stand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUD-SLUSH-BULL | 10/24/1924 | See Source »

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