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Word: reproofs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Right. And a hearty reproof to the editor who failed to point it out specifically in TIME'S footnote, which said that "Saxe-Coburg-tmd-Gotha was the house of the British Royal Family which gazetted itself the House of Windsor only in 1917." (As a retort to that gazetting, Kaiser Wilhelm II and his court attended a command performance of Shakespeare's comedy, The Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg-und-Gotha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 30, 1940 | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

...trainloads of precision tools, dies, and machines for making airplane motors passed through Washington, Russia-bound. Equally confusing was it that, after 3,500 American Youth Congress members in their New York convention had booed President Roosevelt's defense program, Mrs. Roosevelt addressed the brattish assembly, with kindly reproof. Snorted testy Columnist Frank Kent: "In view of the striking record of hostility toward the Dies Committee of the Department of Justice, the President and the President's wife, to say nothing of the extraordinary White House coddling of such Communist-saturated organizations as the American Youth Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR AND PEACE: Under Strain | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

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