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Word: fulle (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hand. So constant were the shifts during the Sacco-Vanzetti case that the paper seemed like an old car going up hill. In regard to Nicaragua the World has thundered on Thursdays and whispered on Monday mornings. Again and again the paper has managed to get a perfect full-nelson on some public problem only to let its opponent slip away because its fingers were too feeble. It does not seem to me that the paper possesses either courage or tenacity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Disloyalty | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...Harvard should win, Yale has an obvious alibi. Harvard employs seven Full Professors to teach English to undergraduates; Yale has only five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harvard v. Yale | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...play is full of easy-going wit which requires no pregnant pauses to speed it on its way. The people are lazy and likable. All went well with Billie Burke, although perhaps she sometimes twitched too violently in her efforts to emphasize her charms. Many of the other members of the cast were with The Happy Husband when it ran long and breathlessly in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 14, 1928 | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...homes (at Hastings-on-Hudson, Palm Beach; Patricia Island, Quebec; Manhattan) are full of flowers, sofas and pictures of two people. One of these is his wife, beautiful Billie Burke. The other is his daughter Patricia who is idolized by her father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Ziggy | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...prove to the world that it was flat and set upon four poles, as the Bible states, he intended to convert the thousands to his enlightened cause, not to have his chosen people converted to the cause of the thousands. Confidently he sailed to Europe with his mind stuffed full of convincing diatribes, never once considering the danger to his own well pastured sheep, safe, as he thought, in Zion City and in the confident belief in the flatness of this unbelieving world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BATTLE OF SOUL SAVING | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

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