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Word: sage (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Frederick G. Lieb, sage baseball writer: "It is doubtful if anyone in that crowd will ever live to see another baseball player hit his 60th home run in a 154-game season. I saw Ruth hit his 59th in 1921 and never thought I would score the game in which that record would be broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Swat | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...Josiah Charles Stamp: A statistician, by whom rare services to his own government and to the Reparations Commission have been rendered through sage advice and a tireless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HONORARY DEGREES AWARDED THIS MORNING | 6/23/1927 | See Source »

...entrance to Harvard next year. Will the people who howl so vigorously about personal rights in connection with prohibition please step forward? Oh, you are silent, are you? I should like to call your attention to the fact that the world's best minds, from Moliere and Le Sage to Bernard Shaw, have valiantly resisted the efforts of the medical fraternity to gain control of the lives (and the deaths) of men. The fact that there were only twenty-two cases of small pox in the entire state of Massachusetts during last year had nothing to do, I suppose, with...

Author: By M. T. S., | Title: THE MAIL | 5/17/1927 | See Source »

...race, or any other event," the Attic sage reasons, "And what does it benefit the city? Very unfairly, indeed, is it that mere brawn is considered superior to goedly wisdom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Xenophanes Proves That There Is Nothing New Under the Sun--Scored Athletic Overemphasis 25 Centuries Ago | 5/11/1927 | See Source »

Philip D. Armour I's wealth helped James G. Elaine lose the presidency to Grover Cleveland in 1884. With Jay Gould, Henry H. Rogers, Cyrus W. Field, Russell Sage and other men of "oppressive wealth" he gave a dinner to Mr. Elaine at Delmonico's in Manhattan, just before the 1884 elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burnt Grain | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

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