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Word: mightly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...features of Mayor Walker the previous week showed a jolly individual who might be a charter member of the Association for the repeal (or nonenforcement) of the Volstead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 10, 1929 | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...know nothing of politics. However, I might give you a little gossip of Washington. There are two sides of the field there, a very brilliant administrative side and a legislative side which is-well, a little foggy. That is a nautical term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: No. 6 Man | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...Many critics feel that Sargent was a second-rate derivative artist throughout his life, but even his advocates admit that his last period was a long retrogression and that he reached the lowest depths in the Widener Library pictures. If Mr. Potter still has doubts on the subject, he might ask any member of the Fine Arts Department; even those who are most sympathetic toward Sargent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Each Thing in Its Place Is Best" | 6/7/1929 | See Source »

...competitors, and endeavors to prove that the growth of American trade has not been at the expense of that of other nations. In what is by all odds the most important chapter in the book he claims that it will not be the source of rivalries which might disrupt the peace of the world, because the increase in American exports has been almost entirely in specialties such as typewriters and automobiles in the production of which we are almost without competitors. The theory is open to objections, but it makes an ingenious justification of the expansionist policy that has dominated...

Author: By R. L. W. jr., | Title: American Commerce | 6/4/1929 | See Source »

...recent French strategy immediately suggests the possibility of asking youthful violators of the gentlemen's agreement to turn over their summer earnings to the funds of their Alma Mater's athletic association and begin life over again. Besides greatly improving the quality of the nation's athletic teams it might swell the A. A. surpluses to such size that various institutions might finish their gymnasiums and have an endowment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MODEST PROPOSAL | 6/4/1929 | See Source »

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