Word: rottenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: If all of TIME were as bad as some of it is, it would be rotten. But if all of TIME were as good as some of it is, it-well, it couldn't be. Palo Alto, Calif. E. C. OAKLEY...
...this country. It it wasn't for them we wouldn't have no subways. They went down in the 'bowels of the earth' and dug 'em out. Now they have gone to Italy and drink wine for 15 cents a gallon while we pay $5.00 a quart for rotten liquor...
...fumes, and his wife, who was fighting to keep him from being sent to a poorhouse. In their kitchen all I could find was a loaf of bread, a small sack of flour, two bottles, one of medicine, one of sleeping fluid. Said I: 'I feel sort of rotten, riding away from here in my Minerva. After leaving them, you know. Me, I've got everything-grand kids and a wonderful wife and this...
...legal phases of the oil investigations before the Harvard Liberal Club, would certainly be stimulated to wonder whether facts had any importance in the scheme of life. He would be, as I am, at a loss to unscramble the report. Certainly its writer had a feeling that something "smelled rotten", but his olfactory nerves turned towards procedure, government counsel, in fact, towards anything save what commonly smells rotten Oil. To refute its many statements would not be worth time or space. But the product raises any important issue: it calls attention to the seriousness of a want of technical equipment...
...continual delays throughout the prosecution of the cases is sufficient evidence that there is something vitally wrong. The United States has been extremely negligent in pressing these cases to the utmost. The whole method of procedure smells rotten...