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Word: girdeth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Acheson's omnipresent old Harvard professor and busybody friend, Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter of the U.S. Supreme Court, with whom he walks to work each day (see cut). Acheson's text for the day, taken from the First Book of Kings: "Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Secondary Responsibility | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

Said Statesman Stimson: "The Army has no place in its organization for promoters of news. My own concept is based on an old Bible text from I Kings 20, 11: 'Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Air-Marker Fraud | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

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