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Word: either (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invading a defenseless country and bandits the natives who raise in arms against the invaders, then the words "hero" and "bandit" should be taken off the dictionary. I think the German never called the Belgian to be "bandits" because they were fighting for their country; nor were you bandits either because you fought the Knglish for your freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 12, 1927 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...records of the War Department tail to show a Custis Knapp, either active or retired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 12, 1927 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...Graham Brown objecting to your printing "Shrewd" as the caption to an account of a dishonest act. On p. 24 of this same number you have another article of very much the same kind under the heading "Shrewd." This isn[t only the second time you have done it either. I remember its having happened before. It hurts me every time you do it. A dishonest action isn't "Shrewd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 5, 1927 | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

Vexed, Governor Young and his fellow Californians then proposed that Arizona keep her present vested water rights (233,800 acre-feet) and tributaries (some 2,159,000 acre-feet); that the remainder of the water be equally divided after deducting Nevada's 2%; but that either state be free to use any water not used by the other within 20 years. Asked if he liked this proposition, Governor Hunt of Arizona exploded: "Hell, no! What we want is a square deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: The Dry Quarter | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...Author. It was Booth Tarkington who lately pointed out that real "sophistication" lies in the way you know things, not in the things you know. Katherine Brush qualifies either way you like. Being the daughter of Headmaster Charles S. Ingham of Dummer Academy (South Byfield, Mass.), only 26 and surpassing fair, she comes naturally by her understanding of nice young modern emotions. How she assimilated the more feverish, spotty metropolitan spectacle-down to the contents of a drug-store cowboy's frayed wallet, stage door argot and the private thoughts of night club Neros-is another story. She worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Aug. 29, 1927 | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

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