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Word: doings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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5. Column 2, page 40. "Hoofs" is the more acceptable plural for "hoof." Incidentally, less is known about the slumber habits of horses than of any other domestic animal. I have been around horses for over sixty years and do not remember ever to have actually seen a horse asleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 29, 1928 | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Goat? Where there are "villains," there is likely to be a "goat." Hard though the thing was on Dr. Work, danger as well as pain threatened the man to whom Dr. Work pointed as the author of his error-Solicitor Ernest Odell Patterson of the Interior Department, the one lawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Villains? Goat? | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Following this prelude, Nominee Hoover stood up. The Garden became a noisy colloid of flags and enthusiasm. The Nominee was unable to do anything about it. He flapped his fingers a few times, and tried to smile.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Full Garage | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

It slowly dawned on the audience that in an indirect, personal but shrewdly purposeful way he was making it appear that the Democratic Nominee, because of his specific proposals in connection with water power, farm relief, prohibition and the tariff, stood in general for "a European philosophy . . ., state socialism," while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Full Garage | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Seriously, however, I cannot be bribed by any man or group of men. Nor can I be intimidated. Indeed, the little woman herself than whom no one is dearer to me, didn't speak to me for days after I announced that 'Massachusetts would go for Smith. So don't...

Author: By Joe Forecast, | Title: PRESIDENTIAL AUGURIES GET JOE'S PUBLIC AGOG | 10/27/1928 | See Source »

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