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Word: regretful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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When we read of the 300 Harvard undergraduates rioting after a midnight show at Cambridge recently, we did so with a sense of regret--regret that something such as that has not happened here at Rice. Regardless of the consequences of the flight, it was a great show of enthusiasm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 3/9/1927 | See Source »

...last week one Deputy, Dan Breen, a Sinn Feiner, took his courage in both hands and took his seat in the Dail. He was not mobbed, but famed Eamon de Valera, onetime self-styled "President of the Irish Republic," said sorrowfully: "We deeply regret Breen's action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Precedent Broken | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...behind the diatribes that Evangelist Norris considered himself called upon to utter from his church rostrum. He had been threatened with death; he believed that angry Mr. Chipps had come to kill him; he, famed for his gunmanship, shot quickly, to be first. Later he learned, with regret, that Mr. Chipps was not armed that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Norris Free | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...Soviet Government can only express regret at Mr. Kellogg's fantastic attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Naive Untruths | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

...regret that I cannot comply with your request and have my article withdrawn. I say this for two reasons. First because, although I did not write the article in question with a view to capitalising it, I have accepted payment for it. Second, and most important, I most firmly and sincerely believe not only in that which I have written but in the support of the many Harvard men, in official positions and otherwise, who have endorsed and encouraged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vain Attempt to Spike Hubbard's Charges Shown by Lowell's Notes | 1/25/1927 | See Source »

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