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Word: remarked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally to annihilate Mr. Barton in this friendly argument, Editor Swope closed with the adduction of Thomas Jefferson's remark that, if it were left to him to decide "whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I would not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: What Difference? | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

...clever twist to another's epigram, or setting, in the midst of an immaculate sentence, some rich gem of slang. Occasionally his erudition waxes into windy verbosity, but not for long. Soon there will come a forthright shaft of sarcasm, or a quotation, such as Yeats' remark about George Moore: "What a pity Moore never had a love affair with a lady-always with women of his own class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Formalist | 1/5/1925 | See Source »

Secretary of the Interior Work presented his annual report to the President, presumably with the remark: "Here's your change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Work's Report | 12/8/1924 | See Source »

...idea that the purpose of college education is to inculate the principle of service in young people, and to give them the habit of purposeful thought. "Many students in college have never had the experience of sitting down and thinking until a result is achieved", he said, prefacing this remark with a statement that some students might consider college the best practice in the world for taking life easily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOPKINS SPEAKS ON COLLEGE AND LIFE | 12/5/1924 | See Source »

...that there was no better Republican campaigner on the stump than Charles E. Hughes. He spoke widely from the Atlantic to the Middle West-in New York, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Chicago, Kansas City, as well as in a number of other cities. With the comment on his effectiveness went the remark that he was a better advocate of Mr. Coolidge than he had been of Mr. Hughes eight years earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Advocate Hughes | 11/17/1924 | See Source »

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