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Word: honorable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ugly rumors spread that Sitter William Wentworth, 12, came down at night. His indignant family defended his honor. Their pastor preached beneath the pole while neighbors sang hymns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sitters | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

That was Paul Bunyan, legendary hero of the logging camps. In his honor, woodsmen from the Northwest camps meet in Paul Bunyan Canyon, near Longview, Wash., for their annual "Rolleo," a carnival featuring the things Paul Bunyan liked to do?log-rolling, timber-topping, axe-twirling, Gargantuan eating, whopper-telling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rolleo | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

More than 1,000 people crowded into Manhattan's Hotel Astor last week to attend a banquet in honor of a Chiropractor. Otto Hermann Kahn, financier and music patron, lauded the Chiropractor. So did William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor. So did dapper James John Walker, mayor and candidate for mayor of New York City. Finally the Chiropractor himself arose and talked about ''the mechanization of the art." To the art of kneading and pummeling spines he did not refer, but to the art of Music. For the speaker was Joseph N. Weber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A.F. of M. Campaign | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Which one of the following would you be willing to sacrifice for the sake of being successful: happiness, comfort, reputation, pride, honor, health, money, love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brightest Boys | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...does this country honor Admiral Farragut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brightest Boys | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

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