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Word: noblest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Throughout Scandinavia moose hunting is esteemed the noblest use of fire arms. Accordingly there is drastic enforcement of laws protecting wild moose out of season. But next winter a determined Parliamentary lobby will urge modification of the game law in the interest of the Swedish Match Co., a gigantic monopoly of such wealth and potency that it occasionally makes governmental loans to the smaller states of Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Wild Moose & Death | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

Proponents of war, if any still dare so to style themselves, have excused the slaughter of millions on Malthusian grounds of reasoning; but not even the most heartless science can acquit humanity of guilt in the destruction of its noblest attainments. And still the nations, without even the wisdom of a burnt child, rush to heap ever higher their piles of weapons, that they know must inevitably, unless some power can stop the insane contest, fall upon them and bury them once more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AND MARS GLOATS | 3/10/1928 | See Source »

...Silent House. The Chinese are a ghoulish people if one is to believe mystery playwrights. They gleefully eviscerate the noblest hero and burn the baby's eyeballs with a chuckle. An untruthful tribe as well, they are only exceeded in creating lies and tortures by the strange race of men who make up plays of mystery. Strive as one must to minimize their truthless horrors, one cannot escape, herein at least, their power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 20, 1928 | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

...ROAD TO ROME?Hannibal, general of Carthage, is destroyed by the noblest Roman woman of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Best Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 12, 1927 | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...ROAD To ROME?Hannibal, general of Carthage, is destroyed by the noblest Roman woman of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 14, 1927 | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

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