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Word: mightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fear is the impression your brutally frank description might make on your casual reader, who cannot realize the enormous significance of a personal experience like Beers' being turned to account for the benefit of mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 10, 1928 | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...needs to do is to visit our group of well children to be convinced of our care of them under the Vita glass. I wish every home and institution that cares for children might have Vita glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 10, 1928 | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...last message of Calvin Coolidge to the U. S. Congress proved to be a brief and unmomentous document. It began, of course, on Peace and Prosperity. It announced that, thanks to prudent budget pruning, the Treasury might have a surplus of 37 millions this year instead of the 94-million deficit rumored before the election. Let Congress beware of the "unthinkable disgrace" of unbalancing the budget between now and June 30, it said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Test has Come | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...with any foreign power with intent to influence either country's conduct "in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States." Anticipating some such move as Mr. Britten's, the State Department has lately been circulating copies of the Logan Act in quarters where it might be necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Britten to Britain | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...such criticism Mr. Britten might have replied that 1) he had long loomed as large on the Naval Affairs Committee as its last chairman, the late Representative Butler of Pennsylvania; 2) that publicity-seeking is not necessarily reprehensible, depending entirely on what you seek to promote, yourself or a good idea, and 3) that one is not necessarily a Big Navy man out of sheer blood-thirst, that Big Navy men might gladly become Little Navy men if all other Big Navy men would join them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Britten to Britain | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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