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Word: pointedness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Democrats, tickled, cheered for more speeches by Dr. Butler, pointed to the fact that he had recently visited President Coolidge. Republicans chided meddlesome Dr. Butler for hinting at his own 1928 "availability." Senator Borah offered to quell him in a debate on Prohibition. Leslie M. Shaw, Secretary of the Treasury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Third Term Talk | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

Some have pointed to the tall, spare, angular figure of President Few as the best guarantee against "monkey-bills" in the South. Of ancient and distinguished lineage, he rose to fame as a scholar and teacher of English literature. "Religion and education; not two but one and inseparable" is the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Forces | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

"When an amateur horseman takes a jump, one of two things is apt to happen. Either the man is determined to take the jump and does, regardless of whether the horse has stopped or not, or else he gets over the jump only to land with his arms lovingly clasped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Holds Bit in Front of Horse's Mouth for Five Minutes But Dobbin Doesn't Bite--Equestrians Saved by Horses' Ears | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

A part of the meeting was taken up by a demonstrated lecture. From pictures of various crews Coach Brown pointed out defects to which certain members of the squad are susceptible.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: METHODS OF CLASS CREW CHOICE MAY BE CHANGED | 2/18/1927 | See Source »

Napoleona went on exhibition last week at the Museum of French Art in Manhattan. Maudlin sentimentalizers sniffled; shallow women giggled, pointed. In a glass case they saw something looking like a maltreated strip of buckskin shoelace or a shriveled eel. It was a mummified tendon taken from Napoleon's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Napoleon's Things | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

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