Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name is being used in other States in a way that is contrary to my wishes. I have heard that in New York it has gone so far as to be claimed such use is with my tacit consent...
Three weeks after the event, Mr. Brand issued an alibi (see LETTERS). He had "gone over" his back files. "I find," he said, "that I was advocating, as a means of agricultural relief, the production of sugar and wool in the United States that we were purchasing abroad." Mr. Hoover said something to the same effect at that time so Mr. Brand thought Mr. Hoover would make the best Secretary of Agriculture possible. Later, he discovered that Mr. Hoover's ideas did not coincide with his own. "So my hopes for Mr. Hoover were blasted," said Mr. Brand...
...well-worn remark to the effect that a prophet is not without honor save in his own country, has more than once gone the way of all good epigrams--to its refutation. And now, exception has once more been taken to it, for, in the current number of The Nineteenth Century and After, appears an article by P. S. Richards which extols, in no uncertain terms, Professor Irving Babbitt as among the foremost, if not the most eminent, of contemporary constructive critics...
...pictures through the book, reading, if he cares to, the written marginal notes, and receives a graphic and vivid impression of the appearances and happenings of earlier times. All of them based on authenticated sources, the pictures have an unquestioned value in giving a general idea of by-gone times...
...drilling of Boston by Mr. Sinclair has gone merrily on. If it has never gone very deep it is because the tools have been many. They have ranged from the Bookman to the Boston Traveler, and now the Forum has discovered, with Mr. Sinclair taking the melody on the slide trombone, that murders in Boston cost three thousand dollars...