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Word: leste (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...crookers," "ax-grinders," "sycophants." The result was that, a few days later, the unofficial spokesman, speaking "informally but authoritatively," declared that the U. S. meant just what it said when it invited foreign powers (TIME, May 25) to arrange to pay up their debts. He went on to say-lest foreigners take too much comfort from the kindly talk of U. S. citizens abroad- that all the nations (possibly excepting Yugo-Slavia) which had borrowed money from the U. S. for relief and reconstruction after the War had broken their pledges. For they promised, when borrowing, to have no preferred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Flutter | 6/1/1925 | See Source »

...college paper tells us also that the college authorities wish the visiting graduates to refrain, in New Haven, from any public or private breach of the law. These unflattering suggestions have been published in many newspapers. Dr. Angell thus seems to say: T deplore your coming. I am anxious lest you set a bad example to our young people. I am afraid that you will break a law which I love and respect, and get us in discredit with the police. I am afraid that you will get drunk on my doorstep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Lesson in Manners | 6/1/1925 | See Source »

...college paper tells us also that the college authorities wish the visiting graduates to refrain, in New Haven, from any public or private breach of the law. These unflattering suggestions have been published in many newspapers. Dr. Angell thus seems to say: "I deplore your coming. I am anxious lest you set a bad example to our young people. I am afraid that you will break a law which I love and respect, and get us in discredit with the police. I am afraid that you will get drunk on my doorstep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Yale Commencement | 5/26/1925 | See Source »

...lest this editorial be taken as an outcropping of an anti-feminist movement at Harvard, the CRIMSON hastens to propose: "The ladies! We're very fond of them--at times...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO THE LADIES | 5/23/1925 | See Source »

...honor of the Science of History. Your learned contributor, I hear, is a historian, and I am therefore astonished to see that he has neglected to fortify, his statements by declaring his sources. He forces me to claim the distinction of being an original source--"Tutor est fons animatus", lest any of your readers should imagine that all Oxford dons are movie fans. I admit that it is highly desirable that they should be but I fear that such a state of things is ideal and as yet outside the range of practical academies. So I must claim undisputed paternity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FORMER OXFORD TUTOR DEFENDS TUTORIAL SYSTEM IN REPLY TO BRINTON'S ARTICLE | 5/20/1925 | See Source »

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