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Word: robbed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Come, workers, sing a rebel song, A song of love and hate; Of love unto the lowly And of hatred to the great, The great who trod our fathers down, Who steal our children's bread, Whose hand of greed is stretched to rob The living and the dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cook's Army | 11/28/1927 | See Source »

Besides this, the publishers "acknowledge with profound gratitude the aid of Messrs. Aesop, Wm. Howe, Rob't Herrick, Poor Robin, Chas. Warner, Ben Jonson, Plato, and Shakespeare "to mention but a few of the post mortuous contributions to this very delightful, very helpful book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORROW'S ALMANACK. Burton Rascoe, Editor, William Morrow & Co., New York, 1927. | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

...Miss Elder's backers are reported to have ordered her to reveal nothing regarding the flight in order not to rob the story of its commercial and journalistic value ?which is typically American and businesslike. "?Echo de Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Wingless Victory | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...Dirty cheats, editors. ME, constant reader. ME, the public. I want to be thrilled, tickled with tragedy. They rob me; steal the stuff my emotions eat for breakfast. Do you know who that is-Nathan S. Leopold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fame | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...attention has just been called to the following statement under Anthropology 1 in your "confidential guide" of courses published on Monday: "Its charm lies largely in the fact that it enables one to meet the science requirement without too much effort." I don't wish to rob this course of any of its charm, but I think some notice should be given that Anthropologoy 1 does not meet the science requirement in distribution. Would you be willing to make some short notice to this effect? Delmar Leighton, Committee on the Choice of Electives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 10/1/1927 | See Source »

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