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Word: runneth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...point is that the Aberdeen-Angus breed has its origin in "time when the memory of man runneth not to the contrary," and is the carrier of dominant characteristics of a kind desirable in a breed of beef cattle, intensified by a longer period of breeding like to like than is the case with other beef breeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 26, 1938 | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...doubtless true that the Georges have performed most of the useful work of the world since the memory of man runneth not to the contrary, but the facile and facetious manner in which responsibility is delegated to us by Tom, Dick and Harry and others too lazy and too incompetent to assume it themselves is decidedly irksome to us Georges. . . . Besides, why should George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 11, 1937 | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

Thou preparest pork barrel before me in the presence of the Republicans: thou hast annointed my old age with Social Security; my tax bill runneth over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 31, 1936 | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...preceded by mounted Negroes in berets and riding togs, followed by female "angels" in green and white satin, wearing banners blazoned "Father Divine is God." Pennons and banners carried by marchers showed that Father Divine has a POLITICAL DEPARTMENT, a RESEARCH DEPARTMENT by which "The Eyes of the Lord Runneth To and Fro Throughout the Whole Earth." Swinging music for all this was furnished by a band which included not only the usual brasses and wood winds but also violins, harmonicas, accordions, ukuleles, guitars, banjos and a portable xylophone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Divine Week | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...Baruch, General Johnson's onetime employer, to "show the Senate that this Bernard M. Baruch and Hugh Johnson, inside and second-story combination of wreckers of Presidents, have been doing this thing so long, and rigging the market for their own individual profits, that the memory of man runneth not to the contrary-and let there be no dispute about it." From Baruch and Johnson, Senator Long progressed to targets closer home, President Roosevelt and Postmaster General Farley, winding up with a fling at Senate Leader Robinson: "I would sound another warning to the Senator from Arkansas. . . . Beware! Beware...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Pied Pipers | 3/18/1935 | See Source »

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