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Word: saxon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political parties, urging a sort of diluted British Fascism of his own invention. The Oxford audience listened politely when he said that the Laborites were "a party of spouting mouths and clutching hands with no brains." But if the Archbishop of Canterbury had shouted a string of four-letter Saxon expletives they could not have been more shocked than they were at what came next from beneath Novelist Wells's grizzled mustache-an attack on King George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dark Line | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

...these advantages fail to convince the gentlemen who have made Columbia famous as the Home of Optometry, no doubt they will be entranced by the scholarship of Mr. Chesley. Etymology is his forte, for he explains that "spiritonomy" is a new word, part Anglo-Saxon and part Greek. And Columbia psychologists may be interested...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPIRITS FROM THE VASTY DEEP | 4/29/1932 | See Source »

...Anglo-Saxon Entente," Professor Langer, Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/21/1932 | See Source »

...defendants remained a speculative secret last week. Undoubtedly he was relying on the probability that the prosecution had no eye-witness to the Kahahawai killing, would thus have to content itself with a circumstantial case. That he would attempt to justify the murder as a matter of Anglo-Saxon honor by bringing the rape of Mrs. Massie into the testimony, bobbed up during the jury-picking. Judge Davis, however, was inclined to rule that Kahahawai's guilt in that assault had not been established in court and was therefore irrelevant. One report was that the forthcoming evidence would show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Mottled Jury | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

...generous dividends-$110 a share in 1914. $50 in 1916, $100 in 1917, $50 for the next two years. $17.50 and a stock dividend of 150 in 1920. The present rate is $4. Typical of a big company's line are such Dixon brands as the green Anglo-Saxon, blue Rapid Writer, Thinex, black Beginners, Lumber Crayon, red-white-&-blue Uncle Sam, buff & blue Bicentennial, purple Violo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Pencils | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

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