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Word: mightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what TIME is tryin' tae bring tae its readers by the "gaping" in that literary gem. I was born and brocht up ("raised" we say oot here) among the Ayrshire yokels, an' I dinna min' seein' them gap much, except when they might be tryin' tae read a newsmagazine as dull as TIME. No that ony siccan drivel was produced in Ayrshire, but there bein' nae censorship on dullness, some yawn-provokers frae the ootside at times got on tae the newsstaunds, an' were whyles bocht by chaps that werena "on" tae their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secret | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...contributed by Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair to the G. O. P. deficit of 1924. But the present G. O. P. would have none of the Senator's "conscience" money. Had any one been robbed but honest Senator Borah, to whom two wrongs could never make a right, some one might have suggested last week that, to restore the theft at Lincoln, an "equalization fee" should be alotted from the "conscience" fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Robbed | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

Despite Nominee Roosevelt's protestations to the contrary, the compelling logic of his nomination, the one paramount purpose, was this: Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the man, the only conceivable man, who might appreciably strengthen Nominee Smith "upstate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Robbed | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...field would be left open to those needing financial aid. While the proportion of ability might be as large in this group, the competition for a lucrative position would attract many whose efforts at earning had better be directed to other jobs, and the result might be disastrous to many...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PAID STUDENT LEADERS | 10/13/1928 | See Source »

...already taxed as an executive place in a corporation. The counter attractions to the part of student leaders that are now making themselves felt will be doubly powerful in a decade. Undergraduates of a future day may ask financial recognition of their role as student executive. This recognition might not be large, but sufficient partially to atone for the sacrifices which the responsibility entails...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 10/13/1928 | See Source »

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