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Word: reade (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present, the magazine has 2,200 subscribers but the number of readers is much greater as the copies are usually forwarded to several other blind persons. Some are known to be regularly sent as far as Australia. Some are read to groups of the blind who have not learned to read the Braille system, so that the number of those who benefit from each issue is many times the 2,200 circulation. Many blind people without means receive the magazine because of the kindness of someone who has donated the subscription price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 23, 1936 | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...issue you use the word "logorrheic"-I nearly fell off the chair when I read it, hurried to my Oxford Dictionary (last edition) but it wasn't listed. This morning I couldn't find it in the office dictionary and now I am bothered. Where did you get it and what does it mean? MAURICE AGGELER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 23, 1936 | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...Police last week found on a bridge over Salmon Falls River, where motorists cross from New Hampshire into Maine, a sign which read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Nation | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...point of making a verbal intimation. Mr. Dawson was correct in assuming that this would be cabled to the U. S., whence it would speed to Buckingham Palace (where clippings by the bale were being sorted last week by Assistant Private Secretary Sir Godfrey Thomas) and be read by King Edward, perhaps with good effect. Said Times Editor Dawson: "The King is going to finish with Mrs. Simpson finally and gracefully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Unprivate Lives | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

These words could be read as meaning that the Cabinet are in a mood to shrug off some of Britain's most solemn treaty obligations. Before Europe could be shocked, however, Sir Samuel's entourage explained that the First Lord's words were an expression of the fact that Britain is not bound to send any particular kind of aid although she is bound to send aid and is true to this obligation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Nov. 23, 1936 | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

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