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Word: finding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accomplished fact for months, some observers thought it churlish of Mr. Gerard to wait until the Turkish Ambassador was actually en route, last week, before delivering himself as follows: "The Senate will soon have an opportunity to express itself upon the so-called modus vivendi, and if it should find as we believe it will find, that it is illegal and unconstitutional then the Ambassadors must return to their respective homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CABINET: Ambassadorial Embroglio | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...people are watching every move made by both the lawyers for the Government and the defense, in order to find out whether rich men can thwart the process of justice by having a staff of able attorneys or whether witnesses can remain abroad indefinitely after being served with subpoenas. The big issue is whether the possessor of great wealth can, by use of legal talent, detective agencies, tampering with the jury and through the absence of important witnesses in Europe, defeat the aims of justice and keep out of the penitentiary. The whole sordid scandal is like a dead mackerel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Dead Mackerel | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...nervous and high strung. But when you have learned how to understand her incisive way of speaking and her determined manner of saying 'No, I won't stand for that,' or her way of declaring 'That won't do at all,' you will find Mrs. Hammonds is a real adjunct to the efficiency of this office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Oklahoma's Governor | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...prevalent is the spirit of the west throughout the play that wide canvas of the University is being made to find a westerner who can faithfully imitate the howl of the coyote. If the search is successful, the effective imitator will enjoy the distinction of being the first person to imitate the coyote's howl over the radio, as a rehearsal of scenes five and six, in which the coyote features, will be given this evening over station WNAC...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCOUR UNIVERSITY FOR COYOTE'S HOWL | 12/1/1927 | See Source »

...history. And indeed, their contention that there is a divinity which shapes the end of history even as it does that of man, In other words that history moves like a drama toward an ultimate conclusion, seems at least to have a basis. Certainly it is not rare to find elements of the dramatic in the events of the past, particularly in studying those which have had, a long and unbroken succession...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 12/1/1927 | See Source »

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