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Word: precept (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...precept and example, "Senator" Young has long since built up within the White House walls a model political organization of which he is the model boss. The White House Correspondents' Association, set up to control the personnel of press conferences, has become under the Boss's rule a powerful dining-out group, whose banquets are often louder & funnier than the Gridiron Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Despot | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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