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Word: hurt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large and rather uncouth. I guess it just occurred to me that he would look better if he wore a beard." While laboriously composing her letter to the great man (and she made only one draft of it) she suddenly became aware that the implications of her note might "hurt his feelings." To add a bit of possible salve she accordingly told the President that the "rail fence around your picture looks real pretty." This referred to the pictorial fence bordering the campaign pictures of Hannibal Hamlin and Abraham Lincoln...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 30, 1936 | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

Berryman R. Hurt 1G, of Barry, Ill., has been appointed assistant of History, and Richard Abel-Musgrave, of The Hague, Holland, as instructor in Economics and Tutor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIXTEEN MEN RECEIVE FACULTY APPOINTMENTS | 11/27/1936 | See Source »

...police notice. Instead, as Miss Loh related in Manhattan last week: "The policemen became very mad. They rushed to me like crazy and beated me. They beated me very violently with the handles of their guns. A hundred and more other students also were attacked most brutly. They mainly hurt my head and it became very swollen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Jokes on Japan | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...operatives beat the combines at their own game. If it's a price war so much the better for the stockholders of the co-operatives, for they are the consumers and they benefit either way. If it's organized boycott that doesn't hurt either, because the members of the co-operatives are loyal and their companies are so founded that they exist primarily for the benefit of the members and make no real attempt to profit from sales to non-members. Any direction the battle runs the co-operative managers are a jump ahead of the cartels and thir...

Author: By A. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 11/17/1936 | See Source »

...Johnson said playfully that Boswell would make a good eunuch. But when Boswell replied in a similar spirit, Johnson got angry-"though he treats his friends with uncommon freedom, he does not like a return"-and began to expatiate on his impolite theme with "such fluency that it really hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Boswell in Full | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

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