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Word: lipping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Chairman John Hamilton hastened on July 4 to the tomb of Thomas Jefferson in Charlottesville, Va., bearing a floral wreath and saying: "Today the Democratic Party . . . under the domination of usurpers, pays only lip service to the immortality of Jefferson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Intimations of Grandeur | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...away, been put in coventry, acted as coxswain of the crew and finally been offered a job on the Queen Mary that his appreciation of Russell-Cotes's advantages becomes complete. By this time, in addition to the familiar sight of Master Freddie keeping a stiff upper lip without letting it interfere with the clipped precision of his diction, audiences will have been treated to a presumably authentic glimpse of how England cares for its underprivileged youth. Most exciting shot: little Lord Jeff falling from the yardarm of a facsimile mast into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 4, 1938 | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

Really cannot savvy how those three so-called Americans who gave lip service to their 100% credo, in TIME, June 13, can get so irrational, illogical and ill-at-ease about your publishing Earl Browder's picture on your front cover [TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 20, 1938 | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...Either the Junior Senator is telling a deliberate untruth or he doesn't know what he is talking about." ¶ In Frostproof, near the State's centre, Representative Wilcox informed an audience that he was "a better friend to the old people than those who give them lip service in Florida and never mention their cause in Washington." ¶ To the north, on the road between Kissimmee and St. Cloud, a motorcade of some 50 cars met the State's Junior Senator Pepper, escorted him with honking horns to St. Cloud's city limits where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Pepper v. Sholtz v. Wilcox | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Although he is deaf in one ear and has difficulty hearing in the dark because he is so used to lip reading, his chief hobby is talk. He finds professors generally poor conversationalists because they are selfconscious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Traveling Man | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

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