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Word: referse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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For many years public speaking has been a torture to the stuttering Duke of York. Well known is the fact that in order to avoid saying "K-K-K-King" at moments of state he habitually refers to his father as "His Majesty." Specialists, remembering the Duke's extreme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: C-C-C-Cured | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Dr. Reiland, "greatly disappointed," did not despair. For he too had legal counsel: Lawyers Robert Fulton Cutting, civic-minded Manhattan millionaire (TIME, Feb. 14, 1927) and George Woodward Wickersham, onetime (1909-13) U. S. Attorney-General, now chairman of President Hoover's law-enforcement commission. They had assured him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Brothers in Christ | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

The "recognition system" is what governs plebe life. From the day he enters until immediately after Graduation Parade, the Plebe acts as a pledge to a fraternity would during initiation week. He is not known by, nor does he know the upper classes. That is, as a whole. He is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Life and Trials of Plebe Set Forth In Story by Cadet Editor of Pointer | 10/19/1929 | See Source »

Sirs: Please refer to your issue of Sept. 9, p. 52 in the column on Education. Mr. Crabtree (Secretary of the National Education Association) complains that chain stores and mail order houses pick up profits in villages which are taxed at the headquarters in a far away place. We wish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 14, 1929 | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

Smoot: "I will say to the Senator I have not. . . . I will ask the Senator to what place he refers."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Times & Places | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

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