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Word: resents (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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However, I resent your prejudiced style of writing on that country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...court investigation last May, are under scrutiny of the U. S. Department of Justice. Said Mr. Schenck last week, replying to Willie Bioff's talk about a plot: "In the case of William Bioff, the producers . . . are not responsible directly or indirectly . . . for his present personal predicament. . . . They resent the imputation that they would resort to any such methods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sweet Willie | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...arrested by the somewhat startling headline "Harvard Murphys Get $360 Each." It is a curious sort of scholarship, and if I were a Murphy I think I might resent it. No Murphy needs a hand-picked education, an appointed college or any other special favors whatsoever. Under proper leadership and direction, the Murphys do just as well as any other man. As a matter of fact, in my day along the Charles my closest friend was named Lambert Murphy. I imagine he would have scoffed at any such niggling subsidy as $360. On nights when he could manage to work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 11/8/1939 | See Source »

Then the Ambassador spoke shockingly frank words. "Many of you," he said, "are not aware of the increasing extent to which the people of the United States resent methods which Japanese armed forces are employing in China, and what appear to be their objectives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Straight from the Mouth | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...resent, Mr. McLaughlin, your deliberate use of certain words, i.e. "short-sighted," "cowardly," would rather have others standw in front." Your implications are unjustified and unbecoming in a teacher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

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