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Word: foolish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soft town. And there was that in it, a scurrilous newspaper (the Post), which put a terrible premium upon the social transgressions which sensational news pages did much to promote. Judge Lindsey has been a very busy man for 26 years, dealing with recalcitrant, vicious, ignorant and also foolish, reckless and genuinely happy young people. Out of minor bench in a secondary U. S. city, Judge Lindsey has made national rostrum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Wedlock | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...course, has done very well for himself. By the time he had finished school and college he saw how foolish he had been to hate them. Respectability pays. He learned the printer's trade, managed a Kansas politician's small-town newspaper, took his good manners to Kansas City and worked on the Star. He married a schoolteacher, got his own small-town newspaper, let his girth grow and joined the diligentsia. Eventually he made his voice heard all over the country. He has taken care not to get too slicked up; has preserved a certain loudness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books | 1/3/1927 | See Source »

...manufactured. Each day they will scoop a trifle of predigested vitamin-less hay through the cow's little window and feed it to dieted rats. If the rats do not get neuritis, Jessie does make Vitamin B. If they do get neuritis, then the experiment will have been usefully foolish. It will have closed one more needless door of scientific research...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Peeking | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

Lieutenant-Commander. Richard Byrd declared in regard to this statement, It is foolish for anyone to say that aviation is not valuable. The value of quicker transportation, to mankind cannot be estimated. It will unlike nations and link rural and urban communities more closely. The position of the airplane today is analogous to that of the automobile 15 years ago. There were people then who maintained that the growth of the automobile industry was a very great evil. We do not consider it so, now, however...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTED FLYERS REFUTE ANTI-AIRCRAFT SPEECH | 12/14/1926 | See Source »

...papers retorted that the Pulitzer journal was meddling in other people's business merely for the sake of sensationalism. Very wisely the World took no notice of such accusations other than to comment succinctly on the sensitiveness of the unjust. By their really frenzied editorials, which were not only foolish but also in bad taste, the southern papers have further incriminated their state and prejudiced the public. Meanwhile all commendations to the World which would appear to live besides the best columnist in the country an equally worthy editorial board...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEGITIMATE CURIOSITY | 11/30/1926 | See Source »

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