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Word: faults (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Many crities become not only professionally fault-seeking but have certain prejudices favoring or disfavoring certain authors and actors. George Jean Nathan is one of those in whom I wouldn't put a great deal of faith...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leslie Howard Extolls Galsworthy as Playwright Who "Makes Small Parts Real"--Expects to Act Shakespeare | 3/29/1928 | See Source »

...independent State, so that its people should be "Americans" no longer. The reason given was that a "grave economic situation" existed. There were jobs for only one in three of Puerto Rico's 1,250,000 inhabitants and this, charged the native politicos, was the fault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Injured Innocence | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

Very typical are these lines. Miss Bell was loyal to a fault toward those she trusted, womanly, and at times highly emotional. She came upon the scene in Irak after the tumult and the shooting had begun to wane; but the present prevailing peace in King Faisal's realm is very largely founded on her broad conciliatory liaison work. Dozens of the letters are pure feminine chatter, but it is never idle chatter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS ABROAD: Lusty Letters | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...your Feb. 6 issue, under "Religion" you find fault with a certain miner for the feeling he evinces towards ministers and their enviable financial position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 5, 1928 | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...would have long since been destroyed. Even the San Francisco earthquake movement did not faze it. If such movements had occurred they would have been reflected in the astronomic computations from Mt. Wilson, in our land surveys, or by dis placements along our many highways and railways which cross fault lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Science's Business | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

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