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Word: respective (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, prompted by Tuskegee Institute's Robert Russa Moton, the foremost newspaper in the land, august New York Times, announced that it would make the typographical change from n to N "as an act in recognition of racial self-respect for those who have been for generations in 'the lower case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: N for Negro | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

...rudely shouted at her: "Are you for votes for women?" The Suffragets had wormed the secret code out of Miss Constance Selby, the Queen's dresser, for whose ability to arrange tastefully a shop-window-full of diadems on the royal person (see front cover) Her Majesty had such respect that she did not discharge the wretch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: May Queen | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

Unique was Patriarch Hadley's place in his college. Son of a Yale professor, he was graduated with the class of 1876. Even as an undergraduate the omnivorous character of his brain, later to become a legend, commanded amused respect. Upperclassmen liked to perch his little body on a soap box and make him deliver ponderous schoolboy philippics. Along with his A.B. degree (with highest honors), he won prizes for proficiency in the classics, astronomy, English composition. Socially also he reaped Yale's richest rewards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Death of a Patriarch | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

...deaf that his intimates must shout close to his ear, so old that diet and digestion are matters of hourly concern to him, so famed that his stalest bromides on national questions can command national attention and respect (see p. 16), Inventor Thomas Alva Edison, 83, continued last week a living though not a lively man, plodding on with life's-end work in his Fort Myers, Fla., winter laboratory. Whether or not he lives to accomplish his latest work?finding a new source of rubber?he had lived to see a semi-official national celebration of his first great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Edison Enters Heaven | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

...favorite indoor sport and Smith College the ideal rendezivous, admitted never having been kissed. Dartmouth's ideal girl friend has brown eyes and black hair, and is moderately "fast." Marsters was credited with having done most for the college, while the editor of the "Dartmouth" was chief object of respect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VOTE OF DARTMOUTH SENIORS WANTS PROHIBITION REPEAL | 3/15/1930 | See Source »

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