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Word: looke (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Imagine this silly stuff (TIME, June 11, p. 17, "King"): "His Majesty though he may look like a dentist, is valorous at heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 25, 1928 | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

...bread and of satisfying his large passion for antiques. He may be old (65), but he is not yet ready to get out of journalism. Rather, he is trimming his properties, consolidating them, fertilizing the hardy ones, weeding out the weak ones; so that a banker can look at them and say: "They are a sound unit." But Hearst no longer cracks the whip that terrorized his rivals and upset the standards of journalism at the turn of the century. He is now willing to compromise, or to stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Anywhere, Everywhere | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

...without a certain amount of tolerance. But for all that we have our intellectual snobs, and our athletic snobs, and our social snobs, and our anti-social snobs, and there is little democracy in us. We pursue our own interests whole-heartedly and unhampered, but we are apt to look upon those who follow other paths with utmost scorn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clase Parts, by Eliot, Jones, and Reel, Cover Wide Field at Commencement Ceremonies | 6/21/1928 | See Source »

...Harvard, as we announced on Saturday, have had an English literature match, ten a side, and Harvard won. The idea is much too good not to be borrowed from a country to which England ready owes so much. Both in fitness and in scope it grows as we look at it. The University which is beaten in the Boat Race has been able hitherto to console itself by declaring that to lead on the river has always been to lag in learning. That consolation can now be either substantiated, or blown away as a false and flattering unction to which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 6/21/1928 | See Source »

...feet long with a great steel sphere at each end, bulbous with electric eyes. These were the stars and planets; each with its own motor to send it through any. desired orbit. Upon the huge domed ceiling, 75 feet across, the professor could project the sky as it looked to three shepherds of Judea on a certain cold night in December, or as it will look to the man in the street on any night in the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Heavens Above | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

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