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Word: honester (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought Youth is always told that it should pay great respect to Age and it always does, but inside it usually shrugs or maybe even sneers and if it does have a feeling of respect it is only because of an externally imposed habit and not because of an honest spontaneous sentiment. Usually, perhaps, but that was not so tonight. In these surroundings it was impossible not to feel something like awe for that figure slowly getting up to cut the cake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 12/14/1939 | See Source »

...bond issue. Foe of competitive bidding, Wendell Willkie had already arranged to have the issue handled by conservative Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. and Bonbright & Co., Inc., who step out one door when competitive bidders step in at another, holding that both investor and issuer are best served by honest, astute, noncompetitive handling. Since the Consumers Power stock issue is small potatoes to any underwriter, there was a shrewd suspicion that Mr. Eaton was really aiming at the bond issue (on which the banking fee at 2% would be more than $500,000), rather than at making a raid on Commonwealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Eaton to the Wars | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...considered a lead, all are well handled, particularly the women's. The technique of "flash" scenes is effective though needing smoother coordination. Taking a script that is alive, at times unable to stay within its own bounds, the Student Union has injected "Bury The Dead" with a spirit of honest reality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 12/6/1939 | See Source »

...True he tried prayer. To be sure it was a Protestant prayer. And Mr. Murphy, now Attorney General and our former Governor, also tried prayer. His was a Catholic prayer. We Michigan folks would not think it senile or flippant if a Jewish prayer should be used in an honest effort to get the automobile workers back on the job. Many Michigan people regret your action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...fire of War I, the U. S. shuns the blaze of War II. Believing themselves to have also been well singed by the Allied and German propaganda of War I, the U. S. people are on the whole reluctant to believe even what their world's most honest press can learn for them about War II. How skeptical the U. S. public is about war news, even that originating from its own Capital, was made digit-plain last week by a FORTUNE survey of U. S. credulity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: What the U. S. Believes | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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