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Word: forgets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good tonic, I respectfully suggest that President Roosevelt go to see "quick-silvered," electric Tallulah Bankhead when he wants complete relaxation. Miss Bankhead has the faculty to make you forget everything, except what is transpiring on the stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 14, 1938 | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...prosecutor tried to get her back to the subject of spying. "Ah," said Miss Moog, "I will not forget the flowers, the beautiful flowers at the roof garden. And those wonderful gentlemen. One gentleman, I remember, he said, 'I have not been in that wonderful America for eleven years. I love America,' he said. 'President Roosevelt is the greatest navy man in the world.' " Miss Moog ignored interruptions of the prosecutor, sighed on: "It made me very happy when those wonderful gentlemen said they liked President Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Spy Business | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

There are a thousand stories about ghost writing; the student who spent fifty dollars to have his honors thesis written for him and received a D for his money, and the men who merely spent a dollar each week a few years ago and then could forget about their English A themes, are only two examples. Yet these stories represent a serious problem for the University that will remain as long as even a small percentage of students continue to be downright dishonest. Individual "ghosts" and organizations of them, local and national, plying their trade now as they have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIND OVER MEMORY | 11/9/1938 | See Source »

Determined that undergraduates shall never forget the conflict of the classes, even in their leisure hours, the Harvard Student Union is currently sponsoring the new card game and reputed forerunner of five-handed bridge known as "Privilege...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Card Game of "Significance" Gets H.S.U. Benediction | 11/3/1938 | See Source »

Pious Mr. Connolly did not forget he was a Hearstman. He scrambled across barbed-wire fences to a farmhouse telephone and shot the story to his International News Service in Manhattan, scooping other services by an hour or more; kept the only list of passengers in his pocket after rival newshawks arrived. Afterwards he got bandages around two cut fingers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press, Oct. 31, 1938 | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

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