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Word: fool (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Proud of the Sonovox, he does not regard it as a main-line achievement. Said he: "I'm a writer by trade. If I haven't got a writing job, fine-I'll fool around with this thing. But it's writing I want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sonovox | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...Moreover, some of the biggest Protestant churches, among them the Northern Baptist,' Methodist and Disciples of Christ, have gone on record as claiming for their conscientious objector members the same exemption from combatant service which the Quakers and others will expect. The compilers of the Handbook do not fool themselves as to what will happen to these commitments "in the emotional stress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: For Pacifists | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Over Cottage Farm Bridge, down Commonwealth Ave., through the Sumner Tunnel, and the lights of the Cyclone heave in sight,--bright lights, climbing, falling, twisting. "I've been on that fool roller coaster three times in a row!" someone boasts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/14/1939 | See Source »

...fool, Miner Lewis has a case. In the competitive jungle of coal, the Lewis miners at last succeeded in stabilizing their wages & hours to the satisfaction of many an operator who had wearied of wage & price cutting. Whether in doing so they fatally hampered coal in its losing competition with such other fuels as gas and oil, is an economic question which John Lewis does not like to face. What he does believe is that his miners are so indispensable to C. I. O. that a reverse for them would be a reverse for the entire labor cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Humble John | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...lords in waiting, grooms in waiting, gentlemen ushers, pages of honor, equerries in waiting, gentlemen-at-arms, yeomen of the guard, ladies of the bedchamber all about his palace; time has increased the number of the King's retainers. Although there is no longer a court fool, His Majesty still has a court sculptor, an organist, a keeper of the swans, a master of the King's music, a painter and limner, a botanist, a historiographer, some 59 ministers of the gospel for his soul, some 40 medical specialists for his body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Civil Servant | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

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