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Word: muchness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stewards outdid themselves to be pleasant, performing all sorts of little thoughtfulnesses which was taken much for granted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

Breathes there a TIME man with soul so dead who never to himself has said how much he would give for an evening with that Petty girl? Or is garrulous TIME too poky to realize women by Petty are not only a No. 1 ware of you know what 50? magazine, but also the modern American Dream? Ask your nearest college boy for further details. And remember not to include out of succeeding columns on illustrators a mention of the airbrushed wonder of your days and mine-the Petty girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...have to waste generation after generation in getting ready for wars and then getting over them ? Civilization!! There isn't much civilization knocking about nowadays, is there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...strangled the rabbit because Undersecretary Hanes bred it without even a stump of the undistributed profits tax tail which Franklin Roosevelt so much admired in the 1936 tax rabbit bred by the late Herman Oliphant.-In simple terms, the Hanes formula...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Strangled Rabbit | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...Bunde's judgments are often interesting and acute; and the sum effect of his criticism will probably be good. The Economics Department will not pay very much attention to Mr. Bunde's strictures, which will be well; but they may pay a little attention, which will also be well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 5/19/1939 | See Source »

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