Search Details

Word: happens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...most damnable, the most iniquitous system ever perpetrated upon a free country. I believe to the victors belong the spoils. ... If North Carolina, Virginia, Texas and Florida want to go Republican, let them have Republican census-takers. ... If that is the company they want to keep and they happen to get up with fleas on 'em, let 'em bite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Old Twins | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

Academician René Bazin had written: ''Do not judge a country by the first citizen you happen to meet nor the first newspaper you happen to read. Study its history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Picture Supplement | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...foolish thing for the Crimson to print, but just one of those boyish things that will happen," Potter said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Man to Man | 6/4/1929 | See Source »

...with a normal timeliness, yet a vague misapprehension seems at times to shroud the release of what is, to undergraduate eyes at least, important information. The commonalty is then left to settle issues for itself, while struggling in a slough of conjecture as to what may or may not happen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No News, or What Killed the Bulldog | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...news, but if a man bites a dog, it is news. The man has evidently bitten the dog in this case. Sheff, is to have a House Plan, but the news or lack of it has been so completely disconcerting, that we wonder what will happen. Yale News

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No News, or What Killed the Bulldog | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | Next