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Word: reread (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second performance. Next came the cinema cameramen, and after them the movietone men. At the last, Mr. Baker protested. "There'll be no sound out of me." Secretary Good started for the door, echoing: "There'll be no sound out of me!" General Summerall agreed to reread the citation, however, and once more Mr. Baker, mum and miserable, was declared "of inestimable value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Baker's D. S. M. | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Most people buy books to read. Literary people buy them to reread. Bibliophiles buy them to see, touch and to ponder their histories. Shrewd men buy them to sell. More and more potent becomes the last-named reason. The shy bibliophile who has picked up some musty, stained bibelot in a sulphurous basement often has apologetic recourse to the sales value of his purchase. Criticized, he will smile slyly, hint: "Wait and see what I can raise on it!" Under cover of this practical sounding alibi he conceals his curious love to finger old vellum, to scan rough, archaic type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Book Business | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...Agent Holt reread TIME'S report of Buchmanism. TIME reported: "Buchmanism, in its essentials, is easily seen as an adaptation of Christianity, which contains many features of traditional excellence. Conversion, contemplation, confession-upon these it lays emphasis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 11, 1928 | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...enjoying the news as portrayed until I came to p. 10, your article on the Ku Klux Klan-which I read and reread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 19, 1928 | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...furthermore it did not cost R. R. Donnelley & Sons 1?. TIME, proud of its new printer, was eager to introduce its 180,000 subscribers & newsstand buyers to the potent organization that prints the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the telephone book of many a U. S. city--and TIME. Let Dissenter Malcolm reread the advertisement; he will see that it did carry "its legitimate and proper signature." The advertisement was signed, thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 27, 1928 | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

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