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Word: doorsteps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what the football coach told the Council was not as strong as what the soldier told a bible class federation: "Pennsylvania can't afford to have a cesspool at its doorstep. That's what Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: In Philadelphia | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

Winifred was next. A starving florist girl, she was so innocent she thought she had to go home with him because he gave her tea. She haunted his doorstep long afterwards, before turning prostitute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cad* | 7/20/1925 | See Source »

...deplore your coming. I am anxious lest you set a bad example to our young people. I am afraid that you will break a law which I love and respect, and get us in discredit with the police. I am afraid that you will get drunk on my doorstep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Lesson in Manners | 6/1/1925 | See Source »

...deplore your coming. I am anxious lest you set a bad example to our young people. I am afraid that you will break a law which I love and respect, and get us in discredit with the police. I am afraid that you will get drunk on my doorstep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Yale Commencement | 5/26/1925 | See Source »

...names and professors are far-away statues pedestaled on a lecture-room platform. In the mind of the newcomer there may arise the feeling that there is no one directly interested in him, no one to whom he can tie; he thinks himself a foundling on the doorstep of learning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR PERSONAL EDUCATION | 4/3/1925 | See Source »

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