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Word: perhapses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Freedom from these suspicions would have been enjoyed by almost any Labor leader. But Mr. MacDonald has personal qualities of his own which attract Americans more, perhaps, than they do Englishmen. His capacity for expressing religious and idealistic sentiment in public speeches is more popular and more accepted in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Good Old Mac! | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

President Don Horacio Vasquez of the Dominican Republic, ill of a kidney ailment, flew (Pan American Airways) to Havana, to Miami, entrained for Baltimore where he, and perhaps his sick wife, will undergo treatment at famed Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

He told the tale of a Harvard Freshman, who was asked in an examination: "Who founded St. Petersburg?" The Freshman answered, and President Angell thought perhaps rightly: "St. Peter." To the question, "What lands lie beyond the Jordan?" the Freshman replied, delphically: "It all depends upon which side of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harvard-Yale | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

A proper criticism of Mr. O'Brien's social theories would take one beyond the scope of this review and would in fact necessitate the employment of most of modern economics and sociology. He is particularly exercised over the increasing standardization of American production and even goes so far as...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mellow Essays | 11/9/1929 | See Source »

A much better case is made against standardization as applied to the American short story, perhaps because this is more closely allied to the author's usual sphere of influence. The implications of his economic theories cannot well help being too much for the treatment afforded by the hundred or...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mellow Essays | 11/9/1929 | See Source »

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