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Word: looke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wealth of the United States than anything I have yet seen. A university so equipped, so bounteously endowed ought to produce scholars. We stopped fifteen minutes to see the collection of glass models of plants and flowers in the University Museum. The forms and colors are exquisite. The plants look real, roots, leaves and flowers, and insects fertilizing them, and yet they are all made of spun glass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Again, The Glass Flowers | 1/26/1928 | See Source »

...flat tire. Look at the Middle West, prosperous, and here in New England we're slipping. I'll bo the biggest gun this town ever produced if I can get the shoe manufacturies to this town. We ought to have a fighting admiral in the Navy Department, not an Annapolis grad. Damn shame politics and the Navy have to mix up. When I'm a little older...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Bossy" Gillis Is Mayor of Newburyport When He Answers the Telephone-"Big Gun" Fires Volley at National Politics | 1/25/1928 | See Source »

Italian correspondents, impressionable, reported that their blood "ran cold'' as they watched a notorious "Mafia Queen," Giuseppa Salvo, 62, receive her 25-year sentence "with a sinister look and a ferocious leer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Mafia Scotched | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...round-the-world campaign to help the leper; governments are rallying to the need of preventing and curing leprosy. In my experience I do not recall that practical aid and comfort have come to lepers anywhere except directly or indirectly through Christian channels. Now, no matter where you look, governments are beginning to study their responsibility in leprosy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEPROSY CONDITIONS WILL BE ALLEVIATED | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...persons who have recovered from leprosy. In nearly all lands in which the disease exists former lepers have been discharged from asylums, restored to their friends, and are able to resume normal life. Contrast this with the dark picture of only a few years ago when no one could look forward to a cure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEPROSY CONDITIONS WILL BE ALLEVIATED | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

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