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Word: poore (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME you say His Majesty the Tenno is ugly. I have been very disgusting for your paper because such lye. You could satisfied if you bee such beautiful man like Tenno. You do not understand because poor taste. Coolidge with nose like oyster is nothing to Tenno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 30, 1928 | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

...problem of today is to utilize modern inventions in the American Navy. "Of course the personnel takes an important part in this process," the Secretary remarked, and to illustrate his point he remarked on the importance of the work of a mechanic, who, by doing a poor riveting job, allows oil to leak from a submarine. Thus a slick is made on the surface, and the submersible ship is betrayed to her enemy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NAVY BUILDING PLANS BASED ON NATION'S NEED | 1/24/1928 | See Source »

...down, and even after the acceptance of a position which would have delayed things a little longer and added to the excitment had been nullified. This is just an initiation, it seems, into the usual proceedings which the election entails and which The College News condescends to elucidate for "poor muddled heads." It merely reduces the number of young ladies with royal complexes to thirty-one who now prepare for the final slaughter. At the queenly "walking" they are put on exhibition before their various coteries of admirers and as succinctly reported in the Bryn Mawr daily, the "possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROAD WORK | 1/24/1928 | See Source »

...Poor Gentleman' is a breathless tale, with many a sudden twist and hair-raising moment. The Shrewd ways by which Captain Shere overcame his handicap, for example, that gruesome life-or-death fight in the dark, when the blind man meets him on even terms, and the manner in which he turned it often to advantage in his contest with his able, if treacherous, adversaries are thrilling incidents in a story that Major Beith has told in his finest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IMPORTANT NEW BOOKS | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...Nose," who tied a boy to the mizzen fife for the whole of the time his ship was beating round the Horn. And not only at sea, but on land is the sailor's life vividly described in his dirty lodgings and carnal relations in a house of rather poor repute...

Author: By Edward PAGE Jr. ., | Title: THE WAYWARD MAN. By St. John Ervine. The Macmillan Co. New York, 1927. $2.50. | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

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