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Word: looke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week that could be dressed up to look like "distinguished" TIME readers. Then I suggest "old ladies," too, because they would cost only $12 a week, and you wouldn't have the expense of dressing them up, because most old ladies have some nice clothes put away somewhere and are fairly clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 21, 1927 | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...Stripes over his arm]. What was good enough for Washington is good enough for me. In the face of an issue such as this, the only issue for a true American, do you folks wanta re-elect your present Mayor.* Do yuh? Do yuh? If you don't look out all history books are going to be full of things belittling George Washington. They're teaching un-Americanism. And if you elect me I'll fire out the whole' blasted caboodle, including King George of England. That's what Big Bill will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mud-Slinger v. Rats | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

Priests and members of religious orders who have taken the vow of chastity, war-mutilated veterans, officers and non-commissioned officers in the army, and foreign males resident in Italy are exempt from the new tax on bachelors (TIME, Dec. 27) and so could look on with amused tolerance last week when the details of the tax were finally approved and promulgated by the Cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Wringing Bachelors | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...been written for a volume of Thornton Burgess' "Mother West Wind Stories"; among them he convinced one reader that, talk as he may about the technique of Lewis Carroll's nonsense, Mr. Reed never yet say the joke in it all and has somewhat strained his eyes trying to look...

Author: By J. C. Furnas ., | Title: FURTHER NONSENSE, VERSE AND PROSE. By Lewis Carroll. D. Appleton and Company, New York. 1927. $2.00. | 2/17/1927 | See Source »

...single subject in his finals. The ending of the September "finals" has come largely because the University does not expect particularly good results form a school-boy who has wasted his time during the school year and hurries through a summer school to make up for it . . . We can look on these changes as long steps forward to the day when entrance examinations will be of loss importance even than they are now, a boy's record and proved ability count even more than they do now. --Yale Alumni Weekly

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

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