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Word: honours (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paragraph 5. "We desire to record our considered opinion that the representatives of Imperial Airways have behaved throughout with perfect propriety. The action taken by them has been dictated by a jealous regard for the honour of the Company and the maintenance of public integrity, and sprang only from a natural apprehension lest the barest suspicion should arise that the relations between the Company and His Majesty's Government had been influenced by individual and personal interests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 28, 1936 | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

...naked light narrow on his space face - While the ship's traffic flowed, unceasing, past him. IV "Thus I speak at the schooled him word to - at go a and sign be come - dumb; To stand to his task, not seeking others to aid him; To share in honour what praise might fall For the task accomplished and - over all - To swallow rebuke in silence. Thus I made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The King and the Sea | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

...collective life of a french regiment of the line and in the individual lives, presented in a counterpoint pattern, of a number of the members of the regiment, from privates to the division commander. The division commander lusts for a star of a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, so he orders the exhausted regiment, after only a few hors of its promised ten day leave, back to the Front for an atack which the colonel knows is suicidal and which is stopped almost before it is started by a nearly complete slaughter of the few men who manage...

Author: By L. H. B., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 6/5/1935 | See Source »

...Boswell made their tour of the Hebrides they visited her, and she and the old lexicographer hit it off from the first. His typical tribute to her was inscribed on her tomb: "A name that will be mentioned in history, and if courage and fidelity be virtues, mentioned with honour. She is a woman of middle stature, soft features, gentle manners, and elegant presence." Safe back in France after his fiasco, Prince Charlie became a young-man-about-Paris. Author Mackenzie says that Charles, like his ancestress Mary. Queen of Scots, was "essentially cold sexually," but women liked him nevertheless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bonny Prince | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

...these and all Thy mercies vouchsafed to us, 0 Father Almighty, we yield Thee unfeigned thanks; through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom with Thee in the Unity of the Holy Spirit be all honour and glory now and for evermore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Unfeigned Thanks | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

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