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Word: foolishment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fund would hold bonds equivalent to the value of the insurance policies outstanding; but in the final year when the policies are payable, the Government would have to raise enough cash to pay off all bonds in the sinking fund with accrued interest-in other words, that it was foolish to credit the Government with a profit on interest which it is paying to itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOLDIER BONUS: Three Figures | 4/7/1924 | See Source »

...debate over Article X was lively. Isahn Bey, deputy for Jebel Bereyet and President of the First Tribunal of Independence, declared that resistance to the admission of women to equal rights was foolish, as in ten years women would certainly be members of the Assembly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Where Men Are Men | 3/31/1924 | See Source »

...Foolish for Men to Sign Pledges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THINKS PACIFIST PLEDGE SIGNERS ARE RIDICULOUS | 3/31/1924 | See Source »

...returns to wipe his feet on the top piece of his rival. The whole is served in Southern style, with a beautiful, beautiful heroine, and dialogue in which there "ah no ahs." So once more Rhodemont is made ridiculous and everybody has a great laugh if he is feeling foolish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 24, 1924 | 3/24/1924 | See Source »

...Will the Freshman Class be reduced from 1024 to 585 so that all members may live in the Freshman Dormitories," a CRIMSON reporter asked Dean Bacon yesterday afternoon. "That is absurd," was the Dean's comment, "Equally foolish is the rumor that 50 per cent of the Freshman Class are on probation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEAN BACON TELLS WHY FRESHMEN FAIL | 3/15/1924 | See Source »

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