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Word: lowborn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your information, the people of the upper section of South Carolina whom you refer to as being "lowborn upstate farmers and mill hands" are descendants of those great patriots who gathered at Kings Mountain to defeat the British Army. This victory led to Cornwallis' ultimate defeat. South Carolina has had no immigrants to speak of and we can boast that the people of our State are all of pioneer American stock that has made America what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 10, 1939 | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...aristocrat but a stonecutter's son, Socrates was schooled by Sophists (the Leftists of Athens) and was at first a penurious democrat. As he grew more famed, Socrates began to hobnob with aristocrats, took gifts of money from them, became less ascetic, changed wives (from shrewish, lowborn Xanthippe to patrician Myrto). By the time he had passed 50, Socrates was followed by no rabble but by young aristocrats who plotted to overthrow the Athenian democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Socrates Socked | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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