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Word: morrises (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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So firmly had he impressed rule No. 1 upon Texans who came up to Congress after him that when the Democrats' big day came and he left the House after one term as Speaker, his Texas bloc possessed a degree of control out of all proportion to Texas'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE PRESIDENCY: Undeclared War | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Big-bearded William Morris, who did some of the first thinking about industry's impact on art, was fond of pointing out that the word "manufacturer" had lost all if its original meaning (hand-maker). Worcester, Mass, is one of the New England towns whose 19th-Century mills and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Flemish Manufactures | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

The more ominous part of the pronouncement, however, is its indication of the extent to which we have allowed ourselves to be motivated by the impulses of hatred. In our passion for justice and our sympathy for persecuted peoples we have allowed our emotions to run away with us until...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 3/7/1939 | See Source »

When the well-known depicter of New England farm life gave a reading at Harvard last fall under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund, such a large audience attempted to crowd into Emerson D that the reading had to be shifted to the New Lecture Hall.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROBERT FROST GUEST SPEAKER AFTER ADAMS HOUSE DINNER | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Mr. Welles plays Falstaff, and his characterization is always good and sometimes excellent Burgess Meredith has the part of Prince Hal, but he seems too boyish in his rendition and not at all gallivanting; furthermore his occasional lapses into a "toity-toid street" accent, ostensibly for lightness, does little credit...

Author: By V. F. Jr., | Title: The Playgoer | 2/28/1939 | See Source »

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