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Word: mix (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decision of the Senate that the white race and the yellow race do not mix to mutual advantage, which has been expressed in the recently passed amendment to the immigration bill, seems eminently sound, and has the approval of the country at large. It is unfortunate, however, that some method of achieving the same end could not have been discovered which would have been less distasteful than the one just employed. There is a certain callousness in the brusque way in which Japan has been told to keep her citizens at home that is very plainly jarring, if the present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "--BUT THE PATIENT DIED" | 4/23/1924 | See Source »

Take a large drink of cider, brazenly paraded as whiskey, and mix with the constitution of a hitherto respectable widow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Apr. 21, 1924 | 4/21/1924 | See Source »

Indeed, it is rather grotesque that he should have any part in the business ?he, Cabot Lodge of the foremost Massachusetts elite, a scholar, a gentleman of refinement, to concern himself with the sansculottes of Russia, to mix in a proletarian problem. Aside from his other important duties, the Subcommittee was obviously no place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Subcommittee | 1/21/1924 | See Source »

...which is not Science. For Science is what must be rebuked on this score today, when it interferes with Religion's affairs, just as Religion has been rebuked for interfering with Science in the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance. Keep things clear; for heaven's sake don't mix them all into one muddy whole. RICHARD LINN EDSALL...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 12/20/1923 | See Source »

...been holding it there for fifteen years, but no enterprising magnate has had the energy to remove it and put it to work". The recipe is simplicity itself. Take one hundred orphan children; add a few good foster mothers and ten thousand acres of California land; then mix well with three hundred and thirty-five days of sunshine per year. Let them eat, be educated, and intermarry. In short, run what Mark Twain once described as a "human stud-farm". "In the second generation", to quote the cheerful Californian, "there would be a race of superman gods on earth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEN LIKE GODS | 12/12/1923 | See Source »

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