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Word: like (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only correction I would like to make is that I did not at any time vote to publish those names and, on the contrary, argued against their publication from the beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...Maine the small saltwater gastropod that abounds on the rocky coast is known as a piniwinkle (all three i's short as in pin), although referred to as a periwinkle in other sections of the country. The winkle is the fleshy snail-like occupant that conceals itself in the protective shell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...Right. The jumbled doggerel is from the Garner campaign song, Cactus Jack, sounds like the work of a political dude rancher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...first glance, few people would think of Walter Lippmann as a great detective. Courteous, well-read, softspoken, with a vocabulary greater than Sherlock Holmes's (and far more normal habits), he could talk international finance with Morgan partners, politics with Presidents, and seem much more like a reassuring expounder of broad issues than a practical political dopester. But last week genteel Columnist Waiter Lippmann solved a mystery that had baffled some of the keenest political detectives in the U. S. It was the Mystery of the Third Term, or Will President Roosevelt Run Again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRESIDENCY: The Deductive Method | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...President announced the library would be completed by next July, that his papers would be available there to authorized persons by July 1941. Since the Library will hold 6,000,000 documents, covering the President's career from the time he was New York State Senator, this looked like an indication that he would not run. No U. S. President has made his correspondence accessible to students and biographers while holding office. But political sleuths pondered: cataloguing the collection will take from ten to 20 years, the collection could easily be locked up if he ran and was reelected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRESIDENCY: The Deductive Method | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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