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Word: forgot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...several thousand of Chang's hosts as well as the latter's "friendship." But last week Chang saw that the Cantonese were pressing hard upon Sun. The time was opportune to forget the $2,000,000 payment that had passed between them. Chang, ever faithless, forgot it easily; last week, ordered his troops with Sun to betray the latter, and marched upon Shanghai himself with an army said to number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Basest War Lord | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

Once in a little southern town she made rough workmen passing by the railroad yard hold their breath while she spoke to them from atop a pile of tar-smeared ties. An enraptured foreman forgot to blow his whistle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York for Jesus | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

...President said he belonged to no fraternal organization. TIME remembered he belonged to Phi Gamma Delta, college fraternity. TIME forgot he belonged to Delta Theta Phi; thanks Subscriber Thomas for the reminder.-ED. Farmers Lack Wits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 14, 1927 | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

...furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; Arm, it in rags, a pygmy's straw does pierce it. "Shame on those who brought this Fall and Doheny case to a miserable close; shame on those who forgot their oaths of allegiance to their country; and shame on those who have forgotten and who have betrayed their country." Perhaps, Attorney Hogan* would have liked to plant his fist in Mr. Heflin's white waistcoat; perhaps, Messrs. Fall and Doheny would have liked to have sued him for libel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: No Yellow Necktie | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

Thwait took it gingerly, precisely, carefully. And then he forgot himself, on remembered himself. "Do you mind--do you mind if I write...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 12/17/1926 | See Source »

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