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Word: mightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Neither of the other two Hoovers looks like the President (though George Akerson, presidential secretary, is held by many to be almost the "double" of his chief). Yet trickery of some sort might have been suspected one day last week when this amazing episode took place: The President was seen to leave his executive office, clad in his usual sack suit. The Japanese Ambassador, Katsuji Debuchi, was waiting in the Blue Room to present the officers of some visiting Japanese warboats. Precisely six minutes after the sack-suited President vanished, there appeared to handshake the Japanese a President neat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...Charter a car and come down to lunch one day. We will have a real rally on the White House lawn. We might even borrow some tents from the Marines and let you camp there all night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCOUTS: Three Things Wanted | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...organization intend to stage an Anti War, Anti Army, Anti West Point demonstration. For obvious reasons such a demonstration at such a time would be in extreme bad taste. In some measure the University acts as host to West Point, the action of these socialists, however much publicity it might gain them, would add little to Harvard's reputation for sportsmanship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dogmatic Purltanism Again | 10/5/1929 | See Source »

Wherefore, with an eye to feeling out the attitude of that body, the college proconsuls of Socialism have decided not to waste their valuable cohorts on what might not cause a riot anyhow, and only one of their number will be delegated to thrust the radical nunciamento into the hands of all who pass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLICE NEMESIS FORCES SOCIALISTS TO CAUTION | 10/4/1929 | See Source »

...admitted duty free into the country and they may sometimes compete with American publications and thus reduce the per'capita spendings of each man woman and child on American printed books. It has been shown lately that American "Big Business" stops at practically nothing, and a Senate, investigation might find Shearer's brother stifling the import of French publications...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHEARER'S BROTHER | 10/4/1929 | See Source »

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