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Word: meanly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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What do you mean by calling a hard-boiled publisher a sociologist in the last issue of TIME? Where do you get that stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 4, 1929 | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

James Cannon Jr., many years ago, pinned upon his mother's breast her only jewel (the white emblem of Prohibition) and laid her to rest and dedicated his life to her battle against alcohol. No mean gen eral, he could fight on two fronts, upward in the church, onward against politicians. Both battles culminated last year in un qualified personal victory. In politics, he undermined the Byrd better-government organization in Virginia, which endorsed the Wet Smith, and put the State in the Republican columns. For this activity he was declared last week to be the man who had done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Money No Object | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...wonder if you really mean to imply that the belief in the efficacy of public opinion as an aid to law enforcement is the same as relying "upon the efficacy of a species of faith healing". That seems to be your meaning in your editorial "In Vino Controversiae...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Fallacy of Faith | 2/1/1929 | See Source »

...Howya' goin', huh? Done your Reading Period work yet? No. Me neither. It's a laugh. I say It's a laugh. I mean, the Reading Period. They took up the extra chairs today. yeh, the extra chairs. They took 'em up today. That's a fast one. Need them for the line outside the Dean's office...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/29/1929 | See Source »

...they ever change the bulbs, I wonder? In the lamps, I mean. Two bum out of three. No, there's three up there. You can feel. Pull the chains. One and two and three. Try the chains on the one down that end. Maybe they work in some kind of combination that they don't turn on in the morning. Try two at a time. You didn't pull together. It makes just one noise when you do. Listen...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/29/1929 | See Source »

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