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Word: dosed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entire class as a "scholastic failure," more than hinting that none deserved diplomas. Irate, one C. L. Simpson, citizen, wrote to a local newspaper that for at least twelve years Principal Cully (21% years at his post) had "handed" each Glenville graduating class, instead of a bouquet a "generous dose of satirical scoring." Citizen Simpson suggested a new type of speech for Mr. Cully: "People, I am incompetent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: National Universities | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

German doctors discreetly remained silent. They know too well the legal, religious and ethical taboos of all countries against taking life. When absolutely helpless against disease, they might let the patient die (easing his pain with drugs if necessary). But to give him a lethal dose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Kindly Murder | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...name) stationed machine guns and armed guards on his prison walls. No one dared enter to serve suspension papers on Warden Tynan. Said he: "You can say for me-and I don't mean maybe-that anyone trying to break into this prison will get the same dose as anyone trying to break out." Jesting friends of Governor Morley took pot shots at the prison searchlight, exploded mammoth firecrackers before the prison door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Miscellaneous Mentions: Jan. 17, 1927 | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...animal wife from California, perceives Wisdom in the dull eyes, lean frame and tired voice of a thirtyish English girl, Lena, an itinerant musician who stops in his house to have a touch of pleurisy. In addition to being childlike, Clifford is some kind of fairy changeling. Lena's dose of Wisdom, combined with an effect of moonlight on mountains, subjects him to an experience that is meant to be beautiful if not religious? hearing voices in the jungle, tearing his shirt off, having an ecstasy ?but it only comes out confusing and a bit absurd. Back again from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notes: Non-Fiction | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...also read the Literary Digest (skipping current events and foreign news), for a more detailed account of the drama and certain personal notes which are very often the choice selection of the American, which magazine (the American) I do not wish to disparage, nevertheless, it is an awful dose to digest as a whole, for grownups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 3, 1927 | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

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