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Word: noblest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan. He served for six years as a U. S. consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua. He became executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. For his richly racial poetry, plus his diplomacy and public service, he was given the 1925 Spingarn Medal (for "noblest achievement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VERSE: Trombones | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...those of Frederick the Great. . . . For millions, he is still the rightful heir of the crowns of Prussia and the German Empire. Many millions, knowing that the republic will be a failure, hope that he will assume leadership. His Imperial Highness is the oldest son of one of the noblest of women and is a true German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: 45 | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

They entered the great Registan (Market Place) of which Lord Curzon has written: "It was originally and is still, even in its ruins, the noblest public square in the World."† The women, with faces on which an absence of reverence could be descried, stood before the three great mosques facing the Registan, mocking the commands of Mohammed by their shameless presence. Soon the venerable priesthood emerged rampant, the effect of their imprecations being enhanced by the fact that in Samarkand old men dye their beards pink with henna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: SAMARKAND | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

...York Evening Post's composing (i.e. typesetting) room because that newspaper desired "only decent-looking men about." Said his sister: "He seemed to me the embodiment of romance and poesy, and now, as I think of him, with his pure unselfish nature, so early devoted to what was noblest and best, I can only compare him to the high-minded boy saint, the chaste seraphic Aloysius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Pangs of Gianthood | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...while the lowbrow is devastating to all that might be fine in our life. The glee club is doing an essential work in the spirit of those lovers of the best men like Charles Eliot Norton and William James, like Royce and Wendell and Santayana--who have created the noblest of Harvard traditions: and it is sad and strange to see Harvard graduates who are willing not only to refuse such work their support but actually to impede it by higgling criticisms because it does not devote itself to ministering to their infantile fixations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glee Club Has Done Immeasurable Service to Cause of Good Music Declares Mason in Comment on 'Lamp of the West' Row | 2/26/1926 | See Source »

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